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SELF-RELIANCE,  INITIATIVE,  LOVE  OF  WORK 

AND  CONCENTRATION 

HELP  THE  INDIVIDUAL  TO  OVERCOME 

DIFFICULTIES 


THIS  BOOK 

HAS  BEEN  PRIVATELY  PRINTED 

FOR  PRESENTATION  AS  STATED 

ON  PAGES  179  TO  184 


Presented 
With  the  Compliments  op 

EDWARD    DETRAZ    BETTENS 

130  West  87th  Street 

New  York,  New  York 

U.  S.  A. 


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TO 
THE  MEMORY 

OF 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 

Serene  and  patient  in  Life's  sunset  hour, 
With  the  calm  twilight  stealing  on  apace, 
Reflected  in  her  sweet  benignant  face, 
Which  shines  in  beauty  like  a  cherished  flower — 

A  dear  devoted  Mother  keeps  her  dower 

Of  Goodness,  Faith,  Unselfishness  and  Grace; 
Toil,  disappointment,  grief  have  left  no  trace 
Save  in  her  Love's  forever  widening  power ! 

She  has  lived  wisely  through  her  many  years; 

Fulfilled  her  mission  with  unsparing  zeal ; 

Enjoyed  the  spell  of  Letters  and  of  Art; 
She  has  seen  rainbows  in  all  storms  of  tears; 

To  ties  of  Friendship  has  been  ever  leal, 

In  perfect  harmony  of  Mind  and  Heart. 

Nathan  Haskell  Dole. 


TWO  GREAT  TEACHERS 


40600 


New  York,  September  5,  1919. 

Thomas  Fenton  Taylor,  Esq.* 

Dear  Taylor: 

"Why  don't  you  justify  to  me,  your  opinion  of  Henry  Adams  as  a 
teacher,  is  your  question  in  your  letter  to  me  dated  September  3rd, 
1919?"  Then  you  add  "I  took  three  one  year  courses  in  History  with 
him." 

The  original  Rochat  and  Bettens  emigrants — my  ancestors — settled  in  Vir- 
ginia about  the  year  1800,  Mr.  Rochat  coming  from  Paris,  France,  and  Mr. 
Bettens  from  Switzerland.  They  had  lived  through  the  period  of  the  French 
Revolution,  and  in  Virginia,  Thomas  Jefferson  was  the  great  leader. 

The  spirit  of  inquiry,  then  prevailing  in  Europe  and  in  the  United  States,  was 
not  objectionable  to  these  two  Emigrants,  and  perhaps  I,  one  of  their  descendants 
today,  am  inclined  to  favor  free  inquiry  into  every  subject.  And  this  may  explain 
why  some  teachers,  very  learned  men,  who  base  their  instruction  to  a  great  extent 
on  authority  do  not  stand  as  high,  in  my  estimation,  as  some  other  teachers  who 
may  be  willing  to  put  to  the  test  any  and  every  tradition,  custom,  and  authority. 

Friom  the  time  of  my  birth  April  11,  1848,  in  Vevay,  Indiana,  French  and 
not  English  was  taught  me,  and  up  to  about  my  seventh  year,  I  could  not  talk 
nor  understand  English.  I  do  not  recollect  of  attending  any  school,  until  about 
1857,  on  arriving  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  I  entered  a  District  School  on  Sycamore 
Street,  of  which  Mr.  Reynolds  was  the  Principal.  At  that  time,  my  general 
knowledge  of  the  studies  taught  to  children  of  the  age  of  nine,  was  about  the 
same  as  that  of  the  other  pupils,  except  that  I  was  wofully  deficient  in  handwriting. 
Because  of  that  deficiency  I  was  dropped  into  a  class,  in  school,  lower  than  the 
one  into  which  I  was  first  entered  as  a  pupil.  Not  one  of  the  teachers  of  that 
District  School  do  I  remember,  except  its  Principal,  Mr.  Reynolds. 

From  that  District  School,  I  entered  the  Second  Intermediate  School,  where 
a  Miss  McGill  was  a  teacher.  During  a  lesson,  or  examination,  in  penmanship, 
Miss  McGill  came  up  behind  me,  looked  over  my  shoulders,  at  my  writing — and 
down  on  my  hand,  holding  the  pen,  came  her  rattan,  and  a  second  stroke  of  the 
rattan  followed,  because  of  a  blot  on  the  copy  book,  caused,  in  fact,  by  the  first 
stroke  of  the  rattan!  I  forgive  her.  Her  niece,  a  pupil  in  that  Intermediate 
School,  wished  to  go  to  her  (the  niece's)  father's  law  office,  and  Miss  McGill, 

♦Class  of  1875  Harvard  College. 


asked  me  to  be  the  niece's  escort.  From  the  school  house  to  the  lawyer's  office, 
this  niece  and  I  walked,  she  hugging,  as  well  as  she  could,  the  walls  of  the  houses, 
and  I  walking  along  the  edge  of  the  curb  stone. 

Miss  McGill  is  the  only  teacher  of  that  Second  Intermediate  School  of  whom 
I  have  any  recollection. 

In  the  fall  of  1864  I  entered  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the 
Principal  of  which  was  Mr.  George  W.  Harper.  I  had  been  a  pupil  there  about 
four  weeks,  when  Mr.  Harper  told  me  that  my  marks  in  all  of  my  studies,  except 
mathematics,  were  satisfactory. 

"I  do  not  understand  mathematics,"  I  said  to  Mr.  Harper.  He  then  told  me 
not  to  study  any  of  my  studies,  except  mathematics  for  the  coming  month.  He 
would  give  me  a  perfect  mark,  for  that  month,  in  all  of  my  studies,  except  mathe- 
matics. "Your  trouble,"  he  said,  "is  that  the  foundation  for  a  knowledge  of 
mathematics  was  not  properly  laid.  Therefore,  start  from  the  very  beginning 
of  a  mathematical  education,  and,  during  this  month,  work  on  mathematics  only." 
I  followed  his  advice,  and  on  graduating  from  Woodward  in  June,  1868,  I  was 
awarded  the  Ray  Silver  Medal  for  excellence  in  mathematics — which  medal  I  still 
have. 

I  entered  Harvard  College,  as  a  Freshman,  in  September,  1869.  About  the 
month  of  December,  1869,  in  Stoughton  Hall,  Room  2,  Harvard  College,  I  was 
preparing  for  a  coming  examination  in  mathematics,  when  my  classmate,  J.  O. 
Shaw,  asked  me  to  tutor  him  for  that  examination,  offering  to  pay  me  $1.50  per 
hour.  I  was  dumbfounded,  and  offered  to  let  him  study  with  me,  without  any 
payment,  as  I  did  not  think  that  I  was  competent  to  be  a  teacher  in  mathematics. 
He  refused  to  agree  to  this,  saying  that  he,  and  other  of  my  classmates,  had 
remarked  how,  in  the  classroom,  I  showed  not  only  my  proficiency  in  mathe- 
matics, but  my  ability  to  make  the  solution  of  the  mathematical  problems  intelligible 
to  these  classmates.  Then,  for  the  first  time,  I  became  a  tutor,  and  from  the 
money  earned  as  such  tutor,  my  expenses  in  Harvard  College  for  seven  years  up 
to  January,  1877,  and  my  brother  Tom's  expenses  in  Harvard  College  for  five 
years  up  to  the  fall  of  1875,  and  my  mother's  expenses  from  June,  1873  to  January 
1,  1877,  were  paid  except,  as  the  scholarships  received  by  Tom  and  me  from 
Harvard  College  helped  to  pay  some  of  those  expenses. 

To  whom  am  I  indebted  for  being  able  to  earn  these  moneys  as  a  tutor  in 
mathematics  ? 

To  George  W.  Harper,  Principal  of  Woodward  High  School, 
Cincinnati,    Ohio. 

Therefore,  Mr.  Harper,  in  my  estimation,  stands  head  and  shoulders  over  all 
of  the  teachers  that  I  have  ever  had  (excluding  Experience  as  a  Teacher),  unless 
Mr.  Henry  Adams,  Assistant  Professor  of  History,  in  Harvard  College,  can  chal- 
lenge the  supremacy  of  Mr.  Harper. 


During  my  Junior  and  Senior  years  in  Harvard  College,  I  had  two  courses 
of  History  under  Mr.  Adams,  one  in  a  class  of  about  forty-five  fellow  classmates, 
where  Modern  European  History  was  taught.  The  recitation  room  for  that  class 
was  in  University  Hall. 

The  other  class  had  about  seven  of  my  classmates;  the  subject  of  study  was 
Early  Germanic  Institutions ;  the  class  met  in  Mr.  Adams'  private  room,  in  Wads- 
worth  House — and  it  was  in  every  way  a  very  informal  hour  of  instruction.  Mr. 
Adams  would,  at  times,  smoke  a  cigarette,  or  sip  some  sherry — but  his  seven 
pupils  never  enjoyed  either  of  those  privileges  in  his  room.  Mr.  Adams  was  a 
man  with  whom  no  one  could  take  undue  familiarities.  What  was  his  method  of 
instruction  ? 

'Trove  all  things :  hold  fast  that  which  is  good." 

— I  Thessalonians  v  :  21. 

In  that  small  class  of  seven,  nothing  was  taken  for  granted.  The  most 
famous  authoritative  writer,  or  book,  meant  nothing  to  Mr.  Adams,  nor  to  the 
Seven  Pupils,  unless  after  examination  he  and  they  agreed,  with  the  writer  or  the 
book. 

To  Mr.  Harper  I  am  indebted  for  having  been  able  to  earn  the  money  as  a 
tutor  of  mathematics  as  above  stated. 

To  Mr.  Adams,  I  am,  in  part,  indebted,  for  the  way  that  I  have  met  number- 
less alleged  truths,  fortified  by  tradition,  custom  or  authority,  and  for  my  ability, 
to-day,  to  look,  unafraid,  at  traditions,  customs  and  authority,  and  to  be  willing  to 

"Prove  all  things ;"  and  to  "hold  fast  that  which  is  good." 

Therefore  to-day,  there  loom  up  before  me,  as  the  two  greatest  of  all  my 
teachers  (excluding  Experience  the  greatest  of  all) 

GEORGE  W.  HARPER  and 
HENRY  ADAMS. 

Have  I  answered  the  question  you  asked  me  in  your  letter  of  the  3rd  instant? 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


A  GIFT  OF  VALUE  TO  THE  WORLD 

A  fine  life  and  character,  such  as  that  of  Saint  Francis  of  Assisi, 
is,  in  the  opinion  of  many  persons,  far  more  valuable  to  the  world 
than  the  gifts  of  all  of  the  temples,  cathedrals,  churches  and  church 
endowments  that  the  world  has  ever  received. 

To  bring  to  the  knowledge  of  the  world  an  admirable  life  and  fine 
character — that  of 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 

— a  sketch  of  such  life  and  character,  included  in  books,  has  been 
widely  distributed  among  colleges,  libraries,  art  museums,  clubs  and 
individuals. 

For  the  same  reason  a  room  in  the  Phillips  Brooks  House,  Harvard 
College,  has  been  named  "The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room" ;  a  "Louise  E. 
Bettens  Fund"  has  been  created  in  the  William  Hayes  Fogg  Art 
Museum,  Harvard  College,  and  some  other  gifts  have  been  made  to 
Harvard  College ;  and  her  Library,  and  some  of  her  book  cases,  pictures 
and  bronzes  have  been  given  to  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

The  book  "The  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens"  is  meant  to 
extend  the  general  knowledge  of  the  life  and  character  of  Mrs.  Louise 
E.  Bettens,  and  in  particular,  to  enable  readers  of  that  book  to  see 
what  writers,  and  what  books,  exerted  some  influence  in  forming  her 
character. 

Fine  lives  and  characters  are  a  blessing  to  the  world.  Material 
gifts  help  educational  institutions  to  perform  a  duty  that  they  owe  to 
their  country  and  to  their  pupils,  but  what  is  valuable  to  the  world  are 
these  fine  lives  and  characters,  rather  than  the  material  gifts. 

The  true  memorial  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  is  her  life  and 
character  and  not  the  gifts  to  Harvard  College,  nor  to  Woodward 


High  School — these  gifts  serving  only  as  sign  posts  to  direct  the 
traveler  to  the  true  path  leading,  through  life,  to  strength  of  mind, 
contentment,  serenity  and  even  happiness. 

"Let  me  express  my  warm  appreciation  and  commendation  of  the 
memorial  which  you  propose  to  establish  in  the  Woodward  High  School 
at  Cincinnati,"  writes  a  friend  to  me.  "I  have,  as  you  know,  visited  the 
'Louise  E.  Bettens  Room'  in  the  Phillips  Brooks  House  at  Harvard,  a 
room  the  dignified  simplicity  of  which  greatly  pleased  me,  and  I  have 
no  doubt  that  when  the  memorial  at  Woodward  is  finished,  and  the 
visitor  asks  for  a  memento  of  your  mother,  it  will  be  sufficient  for  the 
custodian  to  quote  the  inscription  to  the  memory  of  Sir  Christopher 
Wren  on  the  walls  of  St.  Paul's  in  London — 

"si  monumentum  requiris,  circumspice." 


INDEX 
Part  One 

Page 

I.  The  Earthly  Paradise 11 

II.  Autobiographical    13 

III.  The  Acceptance  of  the  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  by  Wood- 

ward High  School 35 

IV.  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 41 

V.  The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room  in  the  Phillips  Brooks  House,  Harvard 

College    55 

VI.  The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Memorials  in  Harvard  College,  April  10,  1917  61 

VII.  Looking  Back,  April  11,  1919 69 

VIII.  Temptations   73 

IX.  Frank  Bettens  81 

X.  A  Portrait  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  for  Woodward  High  School 87 

XI.  Good-Bye   93 

Part  Two 

The  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 101 


ILLUSTRATIONS 
Part  One 

Page 

I.  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  1907 7 

II.  The  Vevay  Home,  1843  to  1857 10 

III.  Rose  Bettens  and  Her  Mother,  1848 14 

IV.  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  and  Her  Three  Sons,  March,  1864 18 

V.  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  and  Two  of  Her  Sons,  1876 22 

VI.  Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  Kebo  and  Don 30 

VII.  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  1864 42 

VIII.  The  Reading  of  the  Medea  of  Euripides,  November,  1912 46 

IX.  The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room  in  the  Phillips  Brooks  House,  Harvard 

College 62 

X.  Lake  O'Hara.     John  Singer  Sargent,  painter 66 

XL  Monmouth  Before  James  II.     John  Singleton  Copley,  painter 70 

XII.  Bridle  Path — Tahiti.     John  La  Farge,  painter 74 

XIII.  Sunday  Morning,  Domberg.     James  McNeil  Whistler,  painter 78 

XIV.  Fishing  in  the  Adirondacks.     Winslow  Homer,  painter 82 

XV.  Frank  Bettens,  1864 86 

XVI.  Edward  Detraz  Bettens,  April  6,  1914 100 


Mrs.  Louise   E.  Bettens 

AT  THE  AGE  OF  EIGHTY 
1907 


FROM   A   PAINTING   IN    MINIATURE   BY 
ALYN  WILLIAMS 


THE  LIBRARY 

OF 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 


"The  sun,  the  moon,  the  stars, 
Shed  no  such  light  on  the  ways  of  men, 
As  one  good  life." 


NEW    YORK 
NINETEEN  HUNDRED  AND  NINETEEN 


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PART  ONE 


Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  and  Her  Children 


The  house  in  Vevay,  Indiana,  in  which  all  of  the  children  of  Mrs. 
Louise  E.  Bettens  were  born,  and  in  which  she  lived  from  the  time  of 
her  marriage,  in  1843,  to  about  1857,  is  still  in  existence,  its  front 
porch  having  been  replaced  by  a  portico,  and  some  additions  having 
been  made  to  it  in  the  rear.  It  is  on  a  farm,  a  public  road  separating 
the  farm  from  the  banks  of  the  Ohio  River. 

The  house  fronts  south,  looking  over  the  Ohio  River,  towards  the 
Kentucky  Hills.  A  Vevay  photographer,  in  March,  1918,  made  three 
photographs  of  the  house  and  its  front  yard.  One  photograph  was  of 
the  front  of  the  house,  with  the  camera  standing  near  it.  Another  was 
a  photograph  of  the  gate,  yard,  and  front  of  the  house,  the  camera 
being  stationed  a  little  south  of  the  road.  The  third  photograph  is 
of  the  yard,  road,  Ohio  River  and  the  Kentucky  Hills,  with  the  camera 
standing  in  front  of  the  house. 

The  weeping  willow  tree  that  was  formerly  at  the  gate  is  no 
longer  there.  Nor  is  there  a  vineyard,  as  formerly,  from  the  road 
stretching  north  over  the  farm.  Two  pecan  trees  are  still  standing 
near  the  house.  On  each  side  of  the  walk  from  the  gate  to  the  house 
there  is,  today,  a  flower  border  of  daffodils.  Such  a  border  was  there 
during  the  years  1843  to  1857. 


New  York,  May  28,  1919. 


Miss  Eleanor  C.  O'Conneli,,* 
Woodward  High  School, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Dear  Miss  O'Conneix: 

Your  letter,  of  the  23rd  inst,  has  interested  me  so  much,  that  I  am 
sending  to  you  by  insured  parcel  post,  as  a  gift  to  Woodward  High 
School,  three  volumes  of  "The  Earthly  Paradise"  by  William  Morris, 
published  in  1871  by  Roberts  Brothers. 

A  Harvard  Graduate,  a  teacher  in  Cincinnati,  gave  those  volumes 
to  our  mother  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  on  Thanksgiving  Day,  Nov. 
22,  1872,  with  an  inscription,  written  in  red  ink  by  him  on  a  fly  leaf 
of  Volume  One,  a  part  of  which  is  as  follows : 

Read,  dreamer,  and  as  down  your  eyelids  droop, 
Weighted  with  slumberous  stories  sweetly  told, 
Haply  your  thought  may  add  unto  the  group 
Of  wand'rers  toward  that  paradise  of  old, 
One  seeking  truth  and  good,  not  ease,  not  gold, 
But  lulled  at  times  by  Lotos-eaters'  lays. 

From  that  time  until  she  died,  those  volumes  were,  everywhere, 
her  companions  and  friends.  In  1913,  at  my  request,  Stikeman  &  Com- 
pany of  this  City,  bound  those  volumes,  Jansen  style — that  is  without 
any  tooling — in  brown  levant,  with  levant  doublure,  and  silk  fly  leaves. 

On  January  7,  1914,  the  anniversary  of  her  birthday,  the  re- 
bound volumes  were  a  birthday  gift  to  our  mother  from  me.  In  each 
volume,  preceding  the  title  page,  are  inserts  of  photogravure  reproduc- 
tions of  photographs  or  portraits  of  our  mother  and  her  three  sons, 
together  with  some  printed  matter. 

*A  teacher  in  Woodward  High  School. 

11 


In  volume  one,  among  these  inserts,  you  will  see  her  and  her 
children,  as  they  were  in  March,  1864.  On  a  fly  leaf  in  volumes  two 
and  three  is  her  name  written  there  by  her. 

The  "Earthly  Paradise"  helped  her  to  understand  Greek  myth- 
ology character  and  spirit,  and  to  love  this  earth  and  what  it  creates. 
In  the  story  of  Alcestis,  in  Volume  one  of  The  Earthly  Paradise,  the 
song  of  Apollo  was  penciled  marked  by  her.  From  that  song  I  quote 
the  following: 

"O,  Dwellers  on  the  lovely  earth, 
*  *  *  * 

What  is  the  folly  ye  must  do 

To  win  some  mortal's  feeble  heart? 

O  fools !  when  each  man  plays  his  part, 

And  heeds  his  fellow  little  more 

Than  these  blue  waves  that  kiss  the  shore, 

Take  heed  of  how  the  daisies  grow. 

O  fools!    And  if  ye  could  but  know 

How  fair  a  world  to  you  is  given." 

In  those  lines  there  is  a  glimpse  of  what  this  earth  was  to  our 
Mother.  Therefore,  "The  Earthly  Paradise"  seems  a  fitting  book  in 
which  to  enclose  her  features  and  those  of  her  children,  with  some 
printed  matter. 

In  Harvard  College  there  is  a  memorial  of  our  Mother,  one  pur- 
pose of  which  is  to  encourage  and  advance  the  Art  of  Painting. 

Could  a  memorial  of  our  mother,  in  Woodward  High  School,  be 
a  means  of  encouraging  and  advancing  the  Art  of  Book  Binding? 
If  it  could,  I  can  give  to  Woodward  High  School,  as  a  part  of  such 
a  memorial,  about  twenty  books — not  memorial  books — that  are 
examples  of  fine  book  binding. 

Would  the  gift  of  such  books  be  acceptable  to  Woodward  High 
School  ? 

Is  there  a  place  in  that  School  in  which  such  books  can  be  kept 
safely  and  at  the  same  time  be  seen  and  examined  by  pupils  of  Wood- 
ward? 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 

12 


II 


AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL 


Rose 

and  her  mother 

Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 

1846 


FROM   A   PAINTING   IN    MINIATURE   BY 
ALYN   WILLIAMS 


New  York,  July  14,  1919. 

Miss  Eleanor  C.  O'Connell. 

Dear  Miss  O'Conneli,: 

An  autobiographical  letter  may  not  be  inappropriate  now  that 
there  is  to  be  a  memorial  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  in  Woodward 
High  School. 

I  was  the  valedictorian  of  the  class  of  1868,  Woodward  High 
School,  and  won  the  Ray  Silver  Medal  for  proficiency  in  mathematics. 
From  about  June,  1868,  to  about  August,  1869,  I  earned  about  five 
dollars  a  week  in  the  store  of  Henry  Brachmann,  on  Third  Street, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Having  saved  one  hundred  and  ten  dollars  from 
those  wages,  I  entered  Harvard  College  in  September,  1869.  In  the 
Fall  of  that  year  Harvard  College  gave  me  a  scholarship  amounting 
to  three  hundred  dollars  for  the  school  year  ending  June,  1870.  During 
the  Christmas  vacation  of  1869  I  began  to  tutor  private  pupils.  My 
brother  Tom  entered  Harvard  College  in  September,  1870.  During 
his  and  my  college  years,  we  each  obtained  scholarships  every  year. 
These  scholarships  helped  to  pay  his  and  my  expenses  in  Harvard 
College,  and  what  was  left  unpaid,  my  earnings  as  tutor  paid. 

On  June  1,  1873,  I  wrote  to  our  Mother  a  letter,  a  copy  of  which 

is  as  follows: 

"Cambridge,  Mass.,  June  1,  1873. 
"Dear  Mother: 

I  hope,  with  you,  that  your  pen  will  soon  make  you  independent. 
I  am  certain,  if  you  once  get  a  fair  chance,  you  will  succeed — and  then 
a  long  good-bye  to  Shillito's  and  Cincinnati.  You  are  right  in  saying 
that  we  wish  you  with  us,  to  advise  and  help  us.  Let  us  all  strive  that 
we  may  meet  and  remain  with  one  another  while  we  live.  When  I  think 
how  we  are  separated,  and  how  you  are  situated,  I  feel  as  though  I  could 
do  a  dozen  men's  work  and  bring  this  to  an  end.  I  feel  that  we  are 
slowly  mounting  over  our  difficulties.  I  am  sure  that  we  are  approach- 
ing a  happy  termination  of  our  long  struggles.  But  this  very  knowl- 
edge makes  me  impatient.    I  wish  to  end  the  journey. 

Like  Xenophon's  soldiers,  returning  home,  the  news  that  the  sea 
is  at  last  in  sight  makes  me  redouble  my  speed — and  like  them,  dear 

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mother,  when  we  stand  on  the  heights  and  behold  the  welcome  blue 
water,  we  will  embrace  one  another  with  joy,  for  Greece,  the  object  of 
our  longings,  rests  just  beyond. 

It  was  with  such  thoughts  that  I  came  near  accepting  a  position  in 
a  school  last  Monday.  There  is  a  vacancy  in  the  Boston  Latin  School. 
They  want  a  teacher  of  history.  The  salary  for  the  first  year  is  $2,600, 
and  $3,000  for  the  second.  This  salary  was  a  great  temptation  to  me. 
I  knew  that,  with  it,  I  could  put  ourselves  above  our  present  circum- 
stances. I  interviewed  the  Principal  of  the  school.  I  went  to  my 
teachers  and  asked  them  for  recommendations.  By  Tuesday  night  I 
had  nearly  finished  my  plans  to  make  a  strenuous  effort  to  get  the  sit- 
uation. The  next  day  I  went  to  President  Eliot  to  get  a  recommenda- 
tion, but  he  met  my  request  by  decidedly  objecting  to  my  taking  the 
place  in  the  school.  He  said  that  the  time  spent  at  the  school  would  be 
lost  time.  I  knew  your  views,  and  on  thinking  over  the  whole  matter 
I  reluctantly  gave  up  striving  (for  the  position).  The  chance  was  a 
pretty  big  temptation,  and  I  hardly  know  whether  I  did  right  in  reject- 
ing it  or  not. 

Before  I  had  decided  not  to  try  for  the  position,  the  enclosed 
recommendation  of  character  was  sent  me  by  Dean  Gurney,  which  you 
may  perhaps  value.. 

One  more  letter  you  will  receive  (before  coming  to  the  73  Com- 
mencement Exercises)  ;  until  then,  good  night,  my  dear  mother. 

Your  loving  son, 

Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  E.  D.  Bettens." 

Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

"Harvard  College, 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  28  May  1873. 

"Mr.  E..  D.  Bettens,  a  member  of  the  Senior  Class,  stood  about 
tenth  in  a  class  of  one  hundred  and  thirty,  at  the  end  of  his  junior  year, 
and  has  been  throughout  his  college  course,  a  thoroughly  satisfactory 
student.  Mr.  Bettens  has  devoted  himself  particularly  to  the  study  of 
History,  and  will,  probably,  obtain  honors  this  year  for  excellence  in 
that  subject. 

As  I  have  known  something  of  Mr.  Bettens  personally  during  his 
College  Course,  I  will  add  that  I  have  seldom  known  a  student  to  show 
so  much  energy  and  proficiency  in  making  his  way  through  college  as 
Mr.  Bettens.     He  will  do  with  his  strength  whatever  he  undertakes. 

E.  W.  Gurney, 

Dean  of  the  Faculty." 
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Our  mother  was  present  in  Appleton  Chapel,  Harvard  College, 
June,  1873,  and  heard  me  deliver  there,  my  Commencement  address, 
the  subject  being  "Hildebrand."  From  that  time,  until  she  died,  she 
and  I  had  one  home. 

From  June,  1873,  to  June,  1874,  I  took  a  post  graduate  course  of 
Early  Germanic  Laws  under  Assistant  Professor  Henry  Adams,  con- 
tinuing to  tutor  private  pupils. 

From  September,  1874,  to  June,  1876,  I  was  in  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  from  which,  in  June,  1876,  I  obtained  my  degree  of  LL.B., 
tutoring  private  pupils  during  those  two  years. 

In  the  Summer  of  1876  I  became  a  student  in  the  law  office  of 
Chandler,  Ware  &  Hudson,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  on  the  advice 
of  one  of  these  lawyers,  prepared  to  go  to  New  York  City. 

On  October  3,  1876,  the  Superior  Court,  Suffolk  County,  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts,  gave  me  its  certificate  admitting  me  to  prac- 
tice as  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law  in  the  Courts  of  the  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts.  I  then  gave  up  tutoring  as  the  Law  is  a 
jealous  mistress  and  brooks  no  rival. 

With  about  four  hundred  dollars  as  the  savings  from  my  earnings 
as  a  tutor,  Mother  and  I  came  to  New  York,  where,  about  January  1, 
1877,  I  became  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  Barlow  &  Olney  at  ten  dollars 
per  week,  thereafter  raised  to  fifteen  dollars  per  week. 

On  June  1,  1877,  the  General  Term  of  the  Supreme  Court  held 
in  the  City  of  New  York,  gave  me  its  certificate  admitting  me  to 
practice  as  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law  in  all  of  the  courts  of  the 
State  of  New  York. 

On  November  20,  1879,  the  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States 
for  the  Southern  District  of  New  York,  gave  me  its  certificate  admit- 
ting me  to  practice  in  its  Court  as  Attorney,  Proctor,  Solicitor  and 
Advocate. 

On  October  11,  1880,  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States 
of  America  gave  me  its  certificate  admitting  me  to  practice  in  its  court 
as  Attorney  and  Counsellor. 

About  1880  the  law  firm  of  Bettens  &  Lilienthal  (Jesse  W.  Lilien- 
thal,  Woodward  Class  of  1870,  and  Harvard  Law  School  Class  of 
1876)  opened  its  office  at  30  Broad  Street,  New  York  City,  and  that 

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firm  continued  there  until,  about  1890,  Lilienthal  went  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, California.  I  kept  my  office  at  30  Broad  Street  until  that  build- 
ing was  torn  down.  Thereupon  my  law  office  was  in  the  Manhattan 
Life  Building  for  about  three  years,  when  I  moved  to  76  William 
Street,  where  I  remained  until  about  1910.  Because  of  my  mother's 
increasing  age  and  approaching  total  loss  of  sight,  in  or  about  1910 
I  closed  my  law  office,  transferred  my  law  books  to  130  West  87th 
Street — my  mother's  and  my  home — and  remained  with  her  until  she 
died  March  23,  1914.  I  am  still  living  in  that  house,  and  I  have  never 
married. 

I  need  not  say  anything,  in  this  letter,  about  my  brother  Tom, 
as  I  am  the  author  of  the  two  books,  copies  of  which  are  in  the  Library 
of  Woodward  High  School,  entitled,  respectively : 

Thomas  Simms  Bettens — A  Memorial 
Thomas  Simms  Bettens 

Nor  need  I  say  anything  in  this  letter  about  our  Mother,  as  I  am 
the  author  of  the  following  books,  copies  of  which  are  in  the  Library 
of  Woodward  High  School,  to  wit,  the  books  entitled,  respectively : 

Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 

Louise  E.  Bettens 

The  Family  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 

Painter  and  Patron 

Picture  Buying 

Art  Museums  and  Artists 

All  of  above  books  contain  a  sketch  of  the  life  and  the  character 
of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens.  The  book  "Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens"  states 
what  memorials  of  her  existed  in  Harvard  College  on  April  10,  1917. 
Since  April  10,  1917,  all  of  the  above  books  mentioned,  after  the  book 
"Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,"  have  been  privately  distributed  and  are  a 
part  of  her  memorial.  The  books  that  were  in  her  Library  at  the  time 
of  her  death,  numbering  about  1325  volumes,  are  described  in  the 
catalogue,  a  copy  of  which  you  have.    In  addition  to  those  1325  volumes 

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Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  and  Her  Sons 

MARCH, 1864 


I  am  sending  to  Woodward  High  School  other  books  bringing  the  total 
to  about  1,600  volumes.  Some  of  these  additional  books  are  as  follows, 
to  wit : 

The  Education  of  Henry  Adams — An  Autobiography. 

A  Son  of  the  Middle  Border,  by  Hamlin  Garland,  Lecturer  and  Author. 

A  Chronicle  of  Friendships,  by  Will  H.  Low,  the  painter;  a  presenta- 
tion copy  from  its  author  to  me,  his  card  presenting  that  book  to 
me  being  pasted  on  the  inside  of  the  first  cover. 

The  Life,  Art  and  Letters  of  George  Inness,  the  painter,  by  his  son, 
George  Inness,  Jr.,  also  a  painter;  a  presentation  copy  from  its 
author  to  me. 

My  brother  Tom  was  very  fond  of  dogs.  I  am  sending  to  Wood- 
ward High  School  a  number  of  interesting  books  on  dogs,  and  modern 
novels,  collected  by  Tom. 

During  my  senior  year  in  Harvard  College,  Professor  Torrey, 
knowing  that  I  had  very  little  time  to  spare  for  the  reading  of  books, 
advised  me  to  handle  the  books,  look  at  them  and  read  the  title  pages. 
This,  he  said,  would  leave  on  my  mind  some  impressions  as  to  the 
books  and  their  authors.  In  after  years,  with  more  leisure  at  my 
command,  memory,  he  said,  would  remind  me  that  there  were  such 
books  and  authors,  or  some  of  them,  and  then,  he  said,  I  might  wish 
to  read  them  or  some  of  them. 

I  suggest  that  the  teachers  in  Woodward  High  School  consider 
that  advice  of  Professor  Torrey.  Very  few  pupils  in  Woodward  High 
School  are  mature  enough,  mentally,  to  wish  to  read,  or  to  understand, 
the  Dialogues  of  Plato,  or  many  other  books  in  the  Library  of  Mrs. 
Louise  E.  Bettens.  But  if  the  teacher  had  a  pupil  look  at  Plato's 
Dialogues — I  mean  the  outside  covers, — handle  the  books,  read  the 
title  pages,  the  pupil,  when  a  little  older,  might  wish  to  read  a  Dialogue. 
This  is  but  a  suggestion  on  my  part  in  line  with  the  advice  given  to  me 
by  Professor  Torrey  in  1873. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 

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New  York,  April  6,  1919. 


Professor  Horatio  S.  White.* 


Dear  White 


This  afternoon  I  read  the  pamphlet  sent  to  me  by  you  bearing  on 
Professor  Willard  Fisk's  life  labor  and  character.  I,  at  once,  took 
out  of  one  of  my  book  cases,  Dasent's  two  volumes  telling  "The  Story 
of  Burnt  Njal",  published  in  1861,  by  Edmundson  and  Douglass, 
Edinburgh,  and  bought  and  read  by  me  about  the  year  1874 — before 
I  left  Cambridge. 

Skarphedinn  with  his  "Ogress  of  War" — his  battle  axe — sing- 
ing as  he  rushed  into  battle,  rises  before  me  as  I  look  at  these  two 
volumes. 

That  is  the  way  to  do  all  work,  whatever  it  may  be,  and  no  work 
is  drudgery  performed  with  that  spirit. 

During  all  of  the  forty-five  years  that  have  gone  since  I  read 
"The  Story  of  Burnt  Njal",  the  singing  of  Skarphedinn  as  he  struggled 
to  succeed  has  rung  in  my  ears. 

I  thank  you  and  Professor  William  H.  Carpenter  for  the  pleasure 
that  comes  over  me  this  afternoon,  as  I  think  of  Skarphedinn,  his 
"Ogress  of  War",  and  his  singing. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


♦Class  of  1873,  Harvard  College. 


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New  York,  July  6,  1919. 


Samuel  B.  Clarke,  Esq.* 


Dear  Clarke: 

"It  is  towards  Serenity  that  we  must  bend  our  steps,"  says 
Rodin,  the  Sculptor,  as  quoted  in  the  July  5,  1919,  issue  of  the  New 
York  Nation,  in  an  article  entitled  Visio  Pacis. 

"Love  of  one's  work,"  continues  Rodin,  "brings  Serenity.  Artists, 
true  artists,  are  almost  the  only  men  who  do  their  work  with  pleas- 
ure. *  *  *  *  Let  there  be,  artist  carpenters,  happy  to  adjust  their 
tenons  and  mortices  with  skill,  and  artist  masons  who  mix  their  plaster 
with  love,  and  artist  truckmen,  proud  to  treat  their  horses  kindly  and 
not  to  crush  the  passers  by." 

And  the  writer  of  Visio  Pacis  adds : 

"This  is  indeed  what  Rodin  conceives  the  word  artist  to  mean. 
This  is  why  Artists  are  the  most  useful  of  men.  They  show  us  what 
life  might  be  if  it  were  pursued  in  the  Spirit  of  Art." 

Serenity  is  to  be  found  in  love  of  one's  work !  And  he  who  loves 
his  work  is  an  Artist! 

Have  I  then  been,  without  knowing  it,  an  Artist,  in  the  Rodin 
sense,  for  the  sixty-two  years  back  to  the  year  1857? 

During  our  Civil  War,  when  not  in  the  school  room  in  Cincin- 
nati, or  not  otherwise  engaged,  I  was,  as  opportunity  presented  it- 
self, a  newsboy  selling  daily  newspapers ;  a  helper  in  a  bakery,  carry- 
ing dough  to  the  baker;  an  office  boy  in  a  printing  shop,  running 
errands;  an  employee  in  the  paint  department  of  a  carriage  manu- 
facturing concern,  painting  wheels  of  carriages;  a  folder  of  blouses, 
coats  and  trousers  for  soldiers,  in  a  United  States  Warehouse;  and, 

*Class  of  1874,  Harvard  College. 

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for  about  one  hour,  a  skilled  (?)  tinsmith  attempting  to  turn  out  tin 
kitchen  utensils.  Alas !  my  career  as  a  tinsmith  lasted  only  about  one 
hour,  as  the  foreman  told  me  that  only  a  skilled  workman  could  do 
what  I  was  trying  to  do — and  what  I  wanted  to  do,  for  the  wages 
were  good,  and  it  was  the  summer  vacation. 

My  school  work  in  Cincinnati  was  never  postponed,  nor  neg- 
lected. Then  came  the  seven  years  in  Harvard  College  and  its  Law 
School,  during  which,  my  expenses  were  earned  by  me. 

A  lawyer's  work  in  New  York  City  followed  the  seven  years  at 
Harvard  University,  and  something  was  done,  as  such  lawyer,  to 
keep  the  wolf  from  the  door. 

Was  that  life  a  hard  life?    No. 

Did  it  ever  occur  to  me  that  that  life  was  not  worth  living?     No. 

At  all  times,  I  loved  the  work  that  was  set  before  me  to  be  done, 
and  in  no  case,  so  far  as  I  can  now  recollect,  did  I  rebel  at  the  doing 
of  such  work. 

There  was  the  joy  that  came  because  there  was  work  to  be  done ; 
there  was  the  joy  of  doing  the  work — doing  it  as  well  as  I  could  do  it, 
and  now,  in  my  seventy-first  year,  Rodin  tells  me  that  since  1857  I 
have  been  an  Artist ! 

I  never  knew  it  until  he  told  me  today,  and  am  not  sure  that  I 
ought  to  believe  him  now.  I  am  sure  of  one  thing,  that  I  never  sought 
serenity  as  an  end.    The  writer  of  Visio  Pacis  says : 

"There  are  persons  who  tell  us — and  they  are  not  the  least  wise  of 
their  generations — that  to  seek  serenity  as  an  end,  is  to  miss  it  by  the 
way;  it  is  to  be  possessed,  like  many  other  spiritual  goods,  only  by 
renouncing  the  pursuit  of  it." 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


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New  York,  July  7,  1919. 


Samuel  B.  Clarke,  Esq. 

Dear  Clarke  : 

My  brother  Frank  died  March  10,  1864,  in  a  room  on  the  top 
floor  of  a  building  on  Kilgour  Street,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  The  house 
was  on  the  east  side  of  the  street.  Our  room  was  an  inside  room,  with 
one  window  opening  north  on  a  school  yard,  and  two  windows  opening 
south,  on  an  open  passageway  leading  to  a  room  next  and  west  of 
our  room.  To  maintain  the  privacy  of  our  room,  on  that  south  side, 
the  green  shutters  of  those  two  windows  were  always  kept  closed  and 
fastened — the  windows  being  opened  or  closed  as  we  wished. 

Mother,  her  sister  Lucretia,  my  brothers  Frank  and  Tom,  and  I, 
lived  in  that  one  room  for  many  years.  It  was  kitchen,  dining  room, 
sitting  room  and  bed  room,  all  in  one. 

Mother,  as  an  operator  of  a  Singer's  sewing  machine,  was,  in 
Shillito's  drygoods  store,  earning  in  March,  1864,  about  twelve  dollars 
per  week.  Frank  when  he  died  was  a  member  of  the  class  of  1866 
Woodward.  Tom  and  I  were  in  the  Intermediate  School,  from  which 
we  thereafter  entered  Woodward,  graduating,  I  in  1868,  he  in  1870. 
On  March  10,  1864  there  were  no  photographs  of  our  mother,  or  her 
sons.  Frank's  photograph  was  made  March  11,  1864,  Mother's,  Tom's, 
and  mine,  a  few  days  thereafter.  The  negative  from  which  Frank's 
photograph  was  made,  I  have,  and  also  have  the  photographs  of 
Mother,  Tom  and  me,  made  in  March,  1864.  I  value  those  photographs 
more  than  all  the  photographs,  portraits  and  miniatures  since  made,  of 
Mother,  Frank,  Tom  and  me.  I  treasure  the  recollection  of  that  room 
more  than  any  other  room  or  house  in  which  I  have  lived  since  I  left 
Cincinnati — for  we  were  still  living  in  that  room,  when,  in  the  fall  of 
1869,  I  ventured  to  leave  Cincinnati  for  Harvard  College,  with  a  total 
capital  of  One  Hundred  and  Ten  Dollars  with  which  to  pay  my  tuition 

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and  expenses  for  four  years  in  Harvard  College,  and  two  more  years 
thereafter  in  Harvard  Law  School. 

My  sympathies  for  those  struggling  under  adverse  circumstances 
have  never  weakened,  on  the  contrary,  they  have  grown  stronger  and 
stronger,  as  the  years  have  come  and  gone.  My  hope  is,  that  my 
mother's  life  and  character  becoming  known,  will  strengthen,  uphold, 
and  encourage  some  who  consider  their  condition  to  be  desperate  and 
their  future  to  be  hopeless.  The  memorials  of  our  mother  have  that 
definite  object  in  view. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Biyf  T£ns. 


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New  York,  July  21,  1919. 


Miss  Eleanor  C.  O'Connell. 

Dear  Miss  O'Connell: 

About  twelve  years  ago  two  letters  were  written,  a  copy  of  one 
and  a  copy  of  a  part  of  the  other  being  as  follows: 

Framingham,  Mass.,  December  30,  1907. 
Dear  Bettens: 

I  am  sending  to  all  the  class  (of  1873,  Harvard  College)  the  record 
of  each  man,  as  I  have  it,  and  asking  for  additions  and  corrections. 
These  go  eventually  to  the  College,  and  ought  to  be  full  and  accurate. 
I  have  practically  nothing  about  you : 

Son  of  Alexander  and  Louise  (Rochat). 

Born  Vevay,  Indiana,  April  11,  1848. 

LL.B.  Harvard  Law  School,  1876. 

Formed  firm  of  Bettens  &  Lilienthal  in  New  York. 

Bt  praeterea  nihil. 

Can't  you  write  up  your  record  for  the  Harvard  Archives? 

Yours  truly, 

Arthur  L.  Ware, 
Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1873, 
|  Harvard  College. 


New  York,  January  20th,  1908. 
Dear  Ware: 

Your  letter  of  December  30th  asks  me  to  write  up  my  record  for 
the  Harvard  Archives.     You  have  practically  nothing  about  me,  your 
letter  says.     My  record  and  my  home  life  are  almost  the  same — every- 
thing else  being  but  incidental  to,  and  leading  up  to,  this  home  life. 
****** 

Sincerely, 
To  Edward  D.  Bettens. 

Mr.  Arthur  L.  Ware, 
'73  Class  Secretary, 
Framingham,  Mass. 

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Your  letter  to  me  dated  July  16,  1919,  asks  permission  to  publish 
in  the  Woodward  Oracle  my  "autobiographical  letter"  to  you  dated 
July  14,  1919.  You  can  make  use  of  that  letter  by  publishing  it  in  the 
Oracle  and  in  any  other  way  you  wish.  My  letters  to  you,  to  Principal 
Charles  Ottermann,  to  Dr.  Randall  J.  Condon,  Superintendent  of  the 
Cincinnati  Public  Schools,  to  Judge  Clearwater,  and  to  Samuel  B. 
Clarke,  Esq.,  are  not  confidential.  They  can  be  used  in  any  way  that 
may  be  deemed  advisable. 

My  life  teaches  me  that  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  is  in  me  and 
in  my  immediate  surroundings,  and  that  one  room  serving  as  kitchen, 
dining-room,  sitting-room  and  bedroom,  with  five  persons  living  in 
that  one  room,  can  be  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  as  truly  as  a  luxuriously 
furnished  house  occupied  by  myself  alone.  Poverty  is  not  necessarily 
a  curse — it  is  often  a  blessing,  because  it  may  be  the  compelling  force 
that  brings  out  of  the  individual  the  best  that  is  in  him,  as  he  struggles 
out  of  poverty's  grip. 

What  is  it  that  made  Hercules  the  hero  of  the  ages?  It  was  his 
Labors. 

"Pleasure  offered  Hercules  a  life  of  ease  and  enjoyment.     Virtue 
a  path  of  toil  leading  to  glory ;  and  he  chose  the  toilsome  path  of  virtue." 

One's  home  life  offers  to  him  a  life's  work  in  struggling  to  better 
that  home  life  and  to  brighten  the  lives  of  his  family. 

The  Labors  of  Hercules  can  be  repeated  to-day  not  with  the 
world  to  roam  over  in  search  of  them,  but  in  one's  immediate  sur- 
roundings. Realizing  very  early  in  my  life  that  there  were  lions, 
hydras  and  other  monsters  right  around  me  to  be  destroyed,  I  battled 
with  them  for  many  years,  and  the  glory  that  came  to  me  is  peace  of 
mind  and  contentment  that  have  always  been  with  me. 

If  my  letters  can  instill  in  the  minds  of  some  of  the  Woodward 
boys  and  girls  that  the  world  they  can  try  to  conquer  is  in  themselves 
and  in  their  homes,  I  will  not  have  lived  in  vain. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


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New  York,  July  26,  1919. 

Miss  Eleanor  C.  O'Connell. 

Dear  Miss  O'Connell: 

Your  letter  of  22nd  inst.  has  been  received. 

Mother's  greatest  favorite  among  poets  was  Byron,  with  Brown- 
ing a  close  second,  and  Browning's  "Ring  and  the  Book"  was  ever 
uppermost  in  her  mind.  Many  an  evening  was  spent  by  me  reading  to 
her  from  "Men  and  Women,"  some  of  those  poems  being  "Herve 
Real";  "By  the  Fireside";  the  "Statue  and  the  Bust";  "Lord  Roland 
to  the  Dark  Tower  Came",  etc. 

Your  wording  of  what  is  to  be  on  the  title  page  of  the  "Bettens 
Album"  which  you  are  preparing,  seems  to  be  just  right.  That  word- 
ing is  as  follows : 

The  Bettens  Album 

Illustrating  by 

Half-tones,  Photographs 

and 

Photogravures 

The  Family  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 

Places  of  Interest  to  them 

Memorials  to  Her 

and 

Special  Printed  Matter. 

1919. 

I  agree  with  you  that  the  "Special  Bettens  Album"  should  be  in 
the  Alcove  Room,  and  a  smaller  one  placed  in  the  Graduates'  Room. 
Enclosed  is  a  copy  of  Dole's  Sonnet.  Rummell's  Drawing,  showing 
the  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  in  the  Alcove  Room,  will  be 
photographed  and  a  copy  sent  to  you. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 

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Thomas  Simms  Bettens  died  July  2,  1907,  in  Bar  Harbor,  Maine, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-six.  His  mother,  then  eighty  years  old,  began  to 
show  the  effects  of  old  age.  That  month,  her  son,  Edward,  decided 
that  her  life  and  character  ought  to  be  known  beyond  the  circle  of  her 
immediate  family  and  a  few  friends.  She  had  lived  the  ideal  life  of  a 
mother,  centering  her  work  in  the  welfare  of  her  children,  and,  as 
opportunity  permitted,  perfecting  her  own  character,  and  improving 
her  mind  with  books  worth  reading.  The  world  does  not  readily  notice 
such  a  life,  even  acquaintances  are  slow  to  understand  it.  But  in  July, 
1907,  Edward  began  to  consider  how  such  a  life  and  character  could 
interest  the  outside  world.  As  a  rule  people  will  admire  a  beautifully 
bound  book,  printed  on  fine  paper  and  handsomely  illustrated,  even 
though  their  contents  do  not  interest  them. 

Such  books  were,  at  first,  made  use  of  by  Edward,  to  bring  before 
others  the  life  and  character  of  his  mother.  Using  hand-made  imperial 
Japan  paper,  photogravures,  and  the  services  of  Mr.  Walter  Gilliss  of 
this  city  as  the  printer,  the  book  "Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  a  Memorial", 
was  privately  distributed  in  1908.  It  contains  a  four  page  sketch  of  the 
life  and  character  of  his  mother,  and  Woodward  High  School  has  a 
copy  of  that  book. 

The  next  year  the  book  "Thomas  Simms  Bettens",  containing  a 
three  page  sketch  of  her  life  and  character,  was  privately  distributed. 
It  was  printed  on  hand-made  imperial  Japan  paper,  with  photogravure 
illustrations,  bound  in  brown  levant  by  Messrs.  Stikeman  &  Company, 
all  under  the  supervision  of  Mr.  Walter  Gilliss.  Woodward  High 
School  has  a  copy  of  that  book. 

After  the  death  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  March  23,  1914, 
memorials  of  her  were  created  in  Harvard  College,  which  memorials, 
as  they  existed  on  April  10,  1917,  are  described  in  the  26  extra 
illustrated  copies  of  the  book  "Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,"  a  copy  of 
which  book  Woodward  High  School  has. 

Other  memorials  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  have  been  in  the  form 
of  privately  distributed  books,  copies  of  which  are  in  the  Library  of 

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Woodward  High  School,  and  the  titles  of  which  are  as  follows,  with 
date  of  private  distribution : 

Louise  E.  Bettens 1918 

The  Family  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 1918 

Painter  and  Patron 1918 

Picture    Buying 1919 

Art  Museums  and  Artists 1919 


In  the  book  "Art  Museums  and  Artists,"  and  also  in  the  pamphlet 
"Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens — Pippa  passes,"  copies  of  which  Woodward 
High  School  has,  under  the  heading  of  "Looking  Back"  is  an  enumera- 
tion of  the  means  employed,  and  their  money  cost,  since  July,  1907, 
up  to  April  11,  1919,  in  attempting  to  create  an  enduring  record  of  the 
life  and  character  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens. 

Then  Edward,  the  surviving  child  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens, 
received  a  letter  dated  May  3,  1919,  from  Miss  Henrietta  Walter,  a 
teacher  in  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  from  1865  to 
1892.  Miss  Walter  asked  Edward  whether  he  was  willing  to  consider 
the  "making  a  gift  to  Woodward  High  School  in  memory  of  his 
mother,"  and  suggested  that  he  write,  concerning  such  a  memorial,  to 
Dr.  Randall  J.  Condon,  the  Superintendent  of  the  Cincinnati  Public 
Schools.  Edward  wrote  to  Dr.  Condon,  and  the  latter  asked  Miss 
Eleanor  C.  O'Connell,  a  teacher,  at  the  present  time,  in  Woodward 
High  School,  to  correspond  with  Edward  as  to  such  a  memorial. 

Such  a  correspondence,  begun  with  Miss  O'Connell,  on  or  about 
May  24,  1919,  has  ended  in  Woodward  High  School  setting  aside 
the  well  lighted  Graduates'  Alcove,  in  the  second  story  of  the  Wood- 
ward High  School  building,  in  which,  as  a  Memorial  of  Mrs.  Louise  E. 
Bettens,  are  to  be  placed,  books,  book  cases,  pictures  and  bronzes,  the 
property  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  on  March  23,  1914,  when  she  died, 
and  a  few  other  books,  added  to  that  collection.  The  dimensions  of  the 
Graduates'  Alcove  are,  18  feet  4  inches  in  width,  27  feet  7  inches  in 
length,  and  13  feet  3  inches  in  height. 

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The  books,  bookcases,  pictures  and  bronzes,  constituting  the 
memorial  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  in  Woodward  High  School, 
briefly  described,  are  as  follows,  to  wit: 


BOOKS 

1.  The  1325  books  which  were  in  the  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  on  March 

23,  1914,  at  the  time  that  she  died.  They  are  described  in  the  catalogue  of 
that  Library. 

2.  Books  other  than  the  1325  books  above  mentioned.    The  total  number  of  books 

in  the  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  in  the  Graduates'  Alcove  in  Wood- 
ward High  School  is  about  1600  volumes.  A  special  feature  of  this  memorial 
of  books  is  the  collection  of  213  books  on  Painting,  Sculpture  and  Architec- 
ture, more  particularly  described  in  the  catalogue  of  the  Library  of  Mrs. 
Louise  E.  Bettens,  but  a  few  of  these  213  books  are  here  referred  to,  to  wit : 

(a)  25  volumes  published  by  Deutsche  Verlags-Anstalt,  each  volume  con- 

taining photographs  of  all  the  paintings  of  a  single  painter,  such  as 
Raphael,  and  of  some  paintings  attributed  to  such  painter. 
At  a  glance  a  pupil  can,  from  these  volumes,  get  some  notion  of  the 
paintings  of  many  of  the  great  masters. 

(b)  7  volumes,  published  by  Franz  Hanfstangel,  of  photographs  of  master- 

pieces in  the  following  galleries : 

NO.  OF 

Photographs 

1.  Konigl.  Gemalde-Galerie,  Dresden 350 

2.  Kaiser  Friedrich-Museum,  Berlin 259 

3.  Rijks-Museum,  Amsterdam 208 

4.  L'Ermitage  Imperial,  St.  Petersburg 239 

5.  National  Gallery,  London 222 

6.  Konigl.  Gemalde-Galerie,  Hague 125 

7.  Konigl.  Gemalde-Galerie,  Cassel 209 

A  pupil,  with  the  help  of  these  seven  volumes,  can  go  through  seven  of 
the  greatest  Art  Museums,  without  leaving  the  High  School  building, 
and  obtain  some  notion  of  1600  masterpieces  of  great  painters. 

(c)  58  volumes  of  "Masterpieces  in  Color",  published  by  T.  C.  &  E.  E.  Jack, 

of  London,  and  Frederick  A.  Stokes  &  Co.,  of  New  York. 
A  pupil  can,  from  these  volumes,  obtain  some  notion  of  the  colors  of 
about  290  great  paintings. 

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Thomas  Simms  Bettens 

AUGUST    15.    1906 
BORN    MARCH   6.    1851  DIED  JULY   2.    1907 


FROM   A   PAINTING   IN    MINIATURE   BY 
ALYN  WILLIAMS 


(d)  27  volumes  of  "Great  Masters  in  Painting  and  Sculpture",  published  by 

George  Bell  &  Sons,  London. 
The  more  capable  and  serious-minded  pupil  will  find  these  volumes  very 
instructive. 

(e)  2  volumes  of  "The  History  of  Painting  from  the  Fourth  to  the  Eigh- 

teenth Century",  by  Richard  Muther,  published  by  G.  P.  Putnam. 
This  is  a  standard  work  and  very  informing. 

(/)  3  volumes  of   Hogarth's   Complete  Works,  published  by  Chatto  and 
Windus,  London. 

(g)   10  volumes  on  Art  and  Artists  by  Mrs.  Jameson,  published  by  James 
R.  Osgood  &  Co. 

With  the  foregoing  books  on  painting,  and  other  books  on  same 
subject,  given  to  Woodward  High  School,  not  only  the  pupils,  but  the 
teachers  and  visitors,  will  have  spread  before  them  a  feast,  such  as 
was  not  offered  to  the  pupils  in  Woodward  in  the  years  1864-1870. 

II 

BOOKCASES  FOR  THE  GRADUATES'  ALCOVE 

(a)  Three  black  walnut  bookcases   from  the  Library  of  Mrs.   Louise  E. 

Bettens  at  130  West  87th  Street,  New  York,  New  York. 

(b)  New  Globe- Wernicke  golden  oak  extension  units,  with  tops  and  bases, 

sufficient,  with  the  black  walnut  cases,  and  a  special  case,  to  contain 
all  of  the  1600  books  above  mentioned. 

(c)  A  special  case,  or  two  special  cases,  with  glass  tops  and  sides,  to  con- 

tain the  23  examples  of  fine  binding  described  in  the  catalogue  of  the 
Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  and  the  books  in  memory  of  Mrs. 
Louise  E.  Bettens  and  Thomas  Simms  Bettens  now  in  the  Library  of 
Woodward  High  School,  and  the  three  volumes  of  "The  Earthly 
Paradise",  and  one  or  two  more  books. 

Ill 

Framed  steel  engravings,  oil  paintings,  black  and  white  drawing, 
prints,  charcoal  drawing,  etchings,  water  colors,  mezzotint,  and  photo- 
graph on  platinum  paper,  formerly  the  property  of  Mrs.  Louise  E. 
Bettens. 

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Hung  in  Woodward  High  School,  these  pictures  may  be  a  con- 
stant educational  influence  on  the  pupils,  training  their  eyes  and  minds 
to  what  is  beautiful  and  ennobling  in  Art. 

The  prints  may  remind  the  pupils  of  two  of  the  greatest  events 
in  the  struggle  of  the  people  for  the  security  of  their  lives,  liberties,  and 
happiness.    These  pictures  and  prints  are  as  follows,  to  wit : 

STEEL  ENGRAVINGS 


Engraver 

Steinla 

Zimmermann 

Rafael  Morghens 

Steinla 

Mandel 

Mandel 

Lefevre 

Lefevre 

Joseph  Bal 

Piranesi 

11.  The  Wheat  Field,  oil  painting,  by  Gustave  Henry  Mosler,  painter. 

12.  Frank  Bettens,  oil  painting,  by  Walter  Florian,  painter. 

13.  Woodward  High  School,  a  black  and  white  drawing,  by  Richard  W.  Rummell. 
Facsimile  of  Magna  Charta,  A.  D.  1215,  with  the  seals  of  the  King's  Securi- 
ties to  Magna  Charta,  and  the  Shields  of  the  Barons  in  Arms,  reproduced 
in  colors. 

Facsimile  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
Landscape.     A  charcoal  drawing,  by  Thomas  R.  Manley. 


Subject 

Painter 

1. 

Sistine  Madonna 

Raphael 

2. 

The  Magdalen 

Battoni 

3. 

The  Madonna  of  the  chair 

Raphael 

4. 

The  Madonna 

Holbein 

5. 

Ecce  Homo 

Reni 

6. 

Mater  Dolorosa 

Dolci 

7. 

Die  Nacht 

Correggio 

8. 

Die  Heilige  Csecilia 

Raphael 

9. 

La  Jardiniere 

Raphael 

10.  The  Arch  of  Constantine. 


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15 
16 


Etchings 

17.  The  Trout  Brook 

18.  The  Old  Bridge 

19.  The  Captain  of  the  Guard 

20.  In  Fleecy  Fetters  Bound 

21.  The  Close  of  Day 

22.  Nasturtiums.    Water  color,  by  Margaret  Rand,  painter. 

23.  Maiden  and  Youth.     Water  color. 

24.  Jem  Burn's  Four  Friends.     A  mezzotint,  by  G.  Zorello,  engraver. 

25.  Reading  of  the  Medea.    A  photograph  on  platinum  paper  by  Alman  &  Com- 

pany. 


Engraver 

Peter  Gowanus 
Peter  Gowanus 
Raj  on 

Rudolph  Berger 
W.  Wellwood,  Jr. 


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IV 

BRONZES 

(a)  A  bronze  and  marble  clock. 

(b)  Two  bronze  and  marble  candelabra,  matching  the  clock. 

(c)  Two  solid  bronze  statuettes. 

(d)  A  bronze  and  marble  card  receiver. 

The  only  daughter  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  Rose,  died  in  Vevay, 
Indiana,  June  28,  1849,  when  about  three  years  of  age.  As  there  were 
no  photographs  or  paintings  of  Rose,  she,  at  first,  was  brought  into  the 
family  group,  through  the  assistance  of  a  Byzantine  Greek  poet,  who 
lived  about  500  A.  D.  A  London  merchant,  with  poetical  tastes,  in 
his  travels  on  business,  in  England,  translated  into  English,  from  a 
longer  poem  of  the  Byzantine  poet,  the  twelve  lines,  which  under  the 
title  of  Rose  Bettens,  brought  her  into  the  family  group. 

That  poetical  re-incarnation  of  Rose  is  as  follows : 

Rose  Bettens 

" Winter  nor  chills  thee,  nor 

Summer  burns, 

Nor  sickness  makes  sorry: 

Thou  nor  hungerest,  nor  thirsteth, 

and 

Robbed  of  its  glory 

Seems  to  thee  now  this  life  of  ours, 

For  thou  dwellest  securely — ■ 

Innocent,  there 
Where  the  rays  of  Olympus 
Enhallow  thee 
Purely  !" 


Born  May  10,  1846 
Died  June  28,  1849 

About  two  years  ago,  on  a  commission  from  Edward,  Mr.  Alyn 
Williams,  painted  in  miniature,  "Rose  and  her  Mother,"  as  he  imagined 
them  to  be  in  1848. 

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Ill 


ACCEPTANCE  OF  THE  LIBRARY 

OF 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 

BY 

Woodward  High  School 


WOODWARD   HIGH  SCHOOL 

CINCINNATI 


CHARLES    OTTERMANN 

PRINCIPAL 


June  30,  1919. 

Mr.  Edward  D.  Bettens, 
130  West  87th  Street, 
New  York  City. 

Dear  Mr.  Bettens: 

Your  letters  addressed  to  our  Miss  O'Connell  have  brought  to  us 
some  very  welcome  news.  It  was  indeed  a  great  satisfaction  for  her 
to  present  to  me  your  interesting  statements  of  your  intentions  to  give 
to  "Old  Woodward"  the  magnificent  library  of  your  mother,  Mrs. 
Louise  E.  Bettens,  the  fine  old  walnut  cases,  the  beautiful  collection  of 
steel  engravings  and  paintings,  and,  finally,  the  offer  which  just 
reached  me  this  morning  of  the  extension  bookcases. 

All  of  these  letters  were  shown  to  our  superintendent,  Dr.  Condon, 
who  manifested,  as  you  might  readily  suppose,  a  deep  interest  in  them 
and  felt  that  Woodward  was  certainly  fortunate  in  receiving  these  fine 
offers  from  you. 

The  catalogue  which  reached  us  the  latter  part  of  last  week  has 
been  shown  to  several  persons  who  we  knew  would  be  vitally  interested 
in  such  matters,  and  has  in  every  case  elicited  an  exclamation  of  sur- 
prise and  wonder  as  to  the  extent,  variety  of  choice,  and  discrimination 
in  such  choice,  of  the  books  as  outlined  in  your  list. 

Our  delay  in  a  prompt  answer  to  you  is  not  due,  as  you  may 
readily  imagine,  to  a  desire  not  to  accept  the  books,  but  to  consider 
from  our  standpoint  a  most  effective  plan  for  taking  care  of  these 
valuable  gifts  in  a  manner  befitting  them,  and  at  the  same  time  placing 
them  in  such  relation  to  our  present  library  as  to  make  them  directly 
available  to  the  boys  and  girls  and  teachers  of  Woodward.    This,  I 

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take  it,  is  in  direct  agreement  with  your  desires — that  is,  that  we  make 
this  wonderful  memorial  to  your  mother  be  of  great  service  and  value 
to  the  future  pupils  and  teachers  of  Woodward  High  School. 

We  have  now  in  mind  a  plan  by  which  a  large  alcove,  which  up 
to  this  time  has  been  known  as  the  "Graduates'  Alcove,"  might  be 
connected  by  means  of  a  door  with  the  main  library.  In  this  alcove 
we  hope  to  place  the  three  walnut  cases  and  the  extension  cases,  and 
of  course  placing  the  collection  of  books  in  them  as  you  request. 

This  makes  this  alcove,  which  in  a  sense  is  an  historic  one,  a  fine 
place  for  quiet  study  for  our  pupils.  Here,  surrounded  by  works  of  art, 
beautiful  books  and  other  things  which  speak  of  the  best  traditions 
of  the  past,  they  surely  will  be  inspired  by  the  highest  ideals  of  culture. 

May  I  therefore,  as  principal  of  Woodward  High  School,  have 
the  honor  of  accepting  these,  your  valuable  gifts  to  "Old  Woodward," 
as  a  fitting  memorial  to  your  mother.  I  might  say  that  while  I  do  not 
expect  to  be  at  the  Woodward  building  during  the  month  of  July,  I 
shall  be  in  the  city  during  the  summer,  and  will  be  glad  to  take  charge 
of  these  items  as  they  come  in  if  you  see  fit  to  send  them  during  July. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

Charles  Ottermann.* 


♦Principal  of  Woodward  High  School. 


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CINCINNATI    PUBLIC   SCHOOLS 

OFFICE    OF   THE    SUPERINTENDENT 

DENTON      BUILDING 
SEVENTH    AND    RACE 


RANDALL   J,    CONDON 
SUPERINTENDENT 


July  15,  1919. 

Mr.  Edward  D.  Bettens, 
130  West  87th  Street, 
New  York  City. 

My  Dear  Mr.  Bettens  : 

This  is  to  acknowledge  your  letter  of  the  12th  of  July  and  to  say 
that  I  am  entirely  willing  to  await  your  pleasure  in  all  of  these  matters. 

I  wish  to  thank  you  sincerely  at  this  time  for  the  gift  of  books, 
prints,  pictures  and  bronzes,  together  with  the  bookcases,  which  you 
are  proposing  to  give  to  the  Woodward  High  School  as  a  memorial 
to  your  mother.  We  are  planning  to  install  this  library  in  a  special 
room  which  will  make  the  gift  quite  noteworthy  and,  we  hope,  an  in- 
spiration to  the  young  people  who  will  have  occasion  to  use  it. 

Sincerely  yours, 

R.  J.  Condon, 

Superintendent  of  Schools. 


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IV 


MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 


Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 

AT   THE    AGE    OF   THIRTY-SEVEN 
1864 


FROM   A   PAINTING   IN    MINIATURE   BY 
ALYN   WILLIAMS 


The  Memorials  of 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 

are  an  express  acknowledgment  by  her 
sons  that  if  their  lives  have  been  useful, 
the  credit  belongs  to  their  mother,  whose 
courage  and  wisdom  in  her  advice  to  them 
never  failed — not  even  on,  perhaps,  the 
most  desolate  day  of  her  life,  March  10, 
1864,  when  her  eldest  son  Frank  died. 


On  a  farm,  near  Ghent,  Kentucky,  there  was  born,  January  7, 
1827,  Louise  E.  Rochat,  the  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Nancy  Rochat.  A 
reader  of  books,  this  father  usually  had  one  with  him,  even  when  at 
his  work.  When  this  daughter  was  old  enough,  she  became  his  com- 
panion, and  not  infrequently,  he  would  unhitch  the  horses  from  the 
plow,  or  stop  whatever  work  he  was  doing,  and  read  aloud  to  his 
daughter. 

The  Book  of  Job,  the  Psalms  of  David,  the  poetry  of  Moore,  Burns 
and  Byron  quickened  the  mind  of  the  girl,  and  a  strong  desire  for 
knowledge  and  wisdom  early  came  to  this  child,  from  such  a  father, 
but,  at  the  same  time,  the  neglected  farm  work  soon  ended  in  the  loss 
of  the  farm.  With  his  family,  Jacob  Rochat  went  to  Vevay,  Indiana, 
and  there  on  January  31,  1843,  Louise  E.  Rochat,  not  yet  seventeen 
years  of  age,  married  Alexander  Bettens.  From  that  marriage  were 
born,  in  Vevay,  Frank,  Rose,  Edward  Detraz  and  Thomas  Simms 
Bettens,  naming  the  children  in  the  order  of  their  births.  Rose,  born 
May  10,  1846,  died  June  28,  1849. 

The  girl,  Louise  E.  Rochat,  and  the  matron,  Mrs.  Louise  E. 
Bettens,  loved  nature  and  animals.  In  Vevay  a  crow  became  her  friend 
and  the  two  would  go  together  into  the  woods,  the  crow  flying  off 
among  the  trees,  but  returning  to  its  friend  at  her  call. 

At  the  expiration  of  about  ten  years  of  married  life,  Alexander 
Bettens'  health  failed.    He  never  regained  it,  dying  August  11,  1870. 

That  sickness,  and  financial  embarrassment,  brought  Mrs.  Bettens 
face  to  face  with  the  problem  of  supporting  and  educating  her  three 
young  sons  from  her  own  earnings. 

Teaching  for  a  few  years,  in  and  about  Vevay,  gave  her  but  a 
small  and  precarious  income,  and  writing  for  the  newspapers,  none 
at  all. 

About  1857  she  and  her  three  sons  were  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and 
for  about  ten  years  she  remained  in  that  city,  with  them,  supporting 
them  with  wages,  never  more  than  about  twelve  dollars  per  week. 

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No  friendly  bird  visited  her  in  her  Cincinnati  room.  No  books, 
except  school  books,  were  purchased  by  her  during  those  ten  years, 
but  her  boys  entered  and  passed  through  the  District  Schools  into  the 
Intermediate  Schools,  Frank  being  in  Woodward  High  School  when 
he  died  March  10,  1864. 

The  poverty  and  grief  of  Frank's  mother,  the  hopes,  centered  in 
him,  shattered  by  his  death,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  did  not  interfere 
with  the  education  of  her  two  remaining  sons.  They  passed  through 
the  Intermediate,  and  Woodward  High  Schools  of  Cincinnati,  and 
entered  Harvard  College,  and  at  the  age  of  forty-six,  their  mother 
joined  them  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  in  June,  1873. 

In  Appleton  Chapel,  she  heard  Edward  speak  on  Hildebrand,  and 
saw  him  receive,  on  commencement  day,  in  June,  1873,  his  degree  of 
A.  B.  from  Harvard  College. 

She  remained  in  Cambridge,  and  in  June,  1874,  Thomas  gave  her 
his  Harvard  College  diploma  of  A.  B.  received  by  him  that  month,  and 
the  next  year  she  received  from  him  his  Harvard  College  diploma  of 
A.  M. 

From  June,  1873,  until  she  died  she  and  Edward  had  one  home. 

Thomas  was  a  teacher  in  Lake  Forest  Academy,  Lake  Forest, 
Illinois,  during  1875  and  1876.  In  1877  he  joined  his  mother  and 
brother  in  New  York  City,  where  Edward  was  a  lawyer,  and  there  the 
three  lived  united  in  one  home  until  Thomas  died  July  2,  1907. 

In  the  Harvard  College  Library  (Gore  Hall)  Mr.  John  Fiske 
gave  Mrs.  Bettens  an  alcove  and  a  special  table,  and  talked  with  her 
about  music  and  books.  In  Boston  she  attended  the  lectures  of  the 
Reverend  James  Freeman  Clarke.  She  absorbed  the  writings  of  Ralph 
Waldo  Emerson.  Congenial  friends  met  in  her  room  to  read  books, 
and  to  discuss  art,  music  and  literature,  and' with  some  especial  friends, 
she  attended,  in  Boston,  the  concerts  of  the  Symphony  Society.  So 
passed  about  three  years  of  her  life  in  Cambridge. 

The  last  thirty-eight  years  of  her  life  she  lived  in  New  York  City. 
She  was  in  Bar  Harbor,  Maine,  for  the  summer,  for  about  thirty 
successive  years,  up  to  and  including  the  summer  of  1911. 

She  went  to  the  Grand  Opera  in  New  York  City  and  was  a  con- 
stant attendant  at  the  Concerts  given  in  that  city,  by  Theodore  Thomas, 

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Leopold  Damrosch,  the  New  York  Philharmonic  Society  and  the 
Oratorio  Society.  She  did  not  neglect  lighter  music  such  as  Gilbert 
and  Sullivan's.  She  heard  Salvini,  Booth,  Irving,  Modjeska  and  Sara 
Bernhardt;  was  delighted  with  the  acting  at  Wallack's  and  Daly's 
Theatres  and  with  that  at  Harrigan  &  Hart's  and  Tony  Pastor's. 

At  weekly  reunions  of  a  few  friends  in  her  home  in  New  York 
City,  music,  art  and  literature,  were,  as  in  Cambridge,  the  subject  of 
conversation. 

Surrounded  by  her  books  as  her  friends,  and  by  a  few  men  and 
women,  and  by  her  sons,  until  Thomas  died  July  2,  1907,  and  then  with 
Edward,  she  passed  into  the  evening  of  life,  losing  her  eyesight  in  1909, 
her  optic  nerve  dying. 

But  even  then  she  heard  re-read  the  poetry  of  Byron,  Browning, 
and  other  poets,  and  the  novels  of  Dumas.  She  still  went  to  the  New 
York  Philharmonic  Concerts,  and  in  the  Summers  of  1909,  1910  and 

1911,  at  Bar  Harbor,  she  was  an  almost  daily  attendant  at  the  Boston 
Symphony  Concerts  given  at  the  Swimming  Pool.  This  life  continued 
until  the  evening  of  November  10,  1911,  when,  for  the  last  time,  sitting 
in  her  library,  she  listened  to  one  of  the  glowing  descriptions  in  Gib- 
bon's Decline  and  Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire.  That  night  a  stroke 
of  paralysis  made  her  helpless,  from  the  effects  of  which  she  never 
recovered,  dying  March  23,  1914. 

In  the  Treasure  Room  of  the  Widener  Library,  Harvard  College, 
is  a  quarto  volume  of  inlaid  letters  and  illustrations,  entitled  Louise  E. 
Bettens,  bound  in  levant  by  Stikeman  &  Co.,  with  no  star  on  its  back. 
These  letters,  written  from  her  home,  during  this  last  sickness,  to 
intimate  friends,  describe  her  life  of  about  two  years  and  four  months 
in  that  sick  room,  and  show  that  music,  literature  of  the  highest  kind, 
and  conversation,  sustained  her  and  enabled  her  to  forget  her  age,  and 
physical  infirmities. 

The  Reading  of  the  Medea  of  Euripides  to  her  on  November  25, 

1912,  described  in  that  book,  is  but  one  of  similar  readings  occurring 
almost  daily  during  that  sickness. 

In  March,  1864,  she  lost  Frank,  her  eldest  child,  and  her  grief 
and  poverty  were  then  extreme. 

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But  she  rose  superior  to  that  grief  and  poverty,  and  in  her  last 
sickness  she  was  superior  to  the  infirmities  of  age  and  sickness,  being 
supported  by  the  thoughts  and  visions  spread  before  her  by  some  of  the 
world's  great  minds. 

We  may  be  living  today  in  a  materialistic  age,  but  idealism  is  not 
dead  when  a  Louise  E.  Bettens  lives.  The  picture  of  the  Reading  of 
the  Medea  of  Euripides  shows  that  the  mind  and  soul  of  such  an  idealist 
conquers  even  the  grim  visage  of  approaching  Death  which  ceases  to 
have  any  terrors  for  her.  Perhaps  her  life  and  aspirations  may  have  a 
good  influence  upon  some  who  see  that  picture  and  understand  its 
meaning. 


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New  York,  August  5,  1919. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Eliot.* 


Dear  Mr.  Euot: 

Last  May  a  former  teacher  in  Woodward  High  School,  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, — from  which  I  graduated  in  1868,  my  brother  Thomas 
in  1870,  and  in  which  my  brother  Frank  was  a  pupil,  when  he  died 
in  1864 — wrote  me  a  letter  suggesting,  that  I  should  create  in  Wood- 
ward High  School,  a  memorial  of  my  mother,  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens. 
This  Memorial  has  been  created. 

A  well-lighted  room,  whose  dimensions  are  27  feet  7  inches  in 
length,  18  feet  4  inches  in  width,  and  13  feet  3  inches  in  height  has 
been  set  aside  in  that  High  School  building  for  such  a  Memorial. 
This  Memorial  consists  of  1,325  books,  constituting  the  library  of 
Mrs.  Bettens,  at  the  time  of  her  death, — with  additional  books 
making  the  total  number  about  1600,  and  book-cases  sufficient  to  con- 
tain the  books,  also  24  pictures  and  prints,  and  6  bronzes,  all  of  which 
had  been  her  property.  My  correspondence  as  to  this  Memorial  has 
been  mainly  with  one  of  the  present  teachers  in  Woodward  High 
School — Miss  Eleanor  C.  O'Connell.  Miss  O'Connell  wrote  me  a 
letter  dated  July  30,  1919,  asking  for  a  list  of  eight  or  ten  poems  and 
books  of  which  Mrs.  Bettens  was  most  fond.  I  have  given  much 
thought  to  that  request,  and  the  best  answer  that  I  can  make  to  Miss 
O'Connell,  is  a  letter  to  her  dated  August  6,  1919,  a  copy  of  which 
is  enclosed. 

You  have  shown  such  an  interest  in  the  Memorials  of  Mrs. 
Bettens  in  Harvard  College,  that  I  venture  to  write  to  you  this  letter. 

Last  June  I  sent  to  Miss  O'Connell  a  catalogue  describing  briefly 
each   of   the    1325   books   which   were   in  my   mother's   library   at 


♦President  Emeritus  of  Harvard  University. 

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the  time  of  her  death.     In  a  letter  to  me  dated  June  30,  1919,  Mr. 
Charles  Ottermann,  the  principal  of  that  high  school  says  that 

"The  catalogue  (of  the  books  in  the  library  of  Mrs.  Bettens)  which 
reached  us  the  latter  part  of  last  week,  has  been  shown  to  several 
persons,  who  we  knew  would  be  vitally  interested  in  such  matters,  and  has 
in  every  case  elicited  an  exclamation  of  surprise  and  wonder  as  to  the 
extent,  variety  of  choice,  and  discrimination  in  the  choice,  of  the  books 
as  outlined  in  your  list." 

A  copy  of  that  catalogue  is  now  in  the  hands  of  the  printers,  and 
it  is  my  intention  to  print  and  distribute  privately  a  few  copies  of 
this  catalogue. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


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New  York,  August  6,  1919. 


Miss  Eleanor  C.  O'Connell. 


Dear  Miss  O'Connell: 

Your  letter  dated  July  30,  1919,  asks  me  to  let  you  have  a  list 
of  eight  or  ten  poems  and  books  of  which  my  mother  was  especially 
fond. 

I  do  not  believe  that  even  my  mother  would  undertake  to 
answer  that  question.  Mrs.  Bettens  readily  responded  to  what  was 
beautiful,  ennobling  and  inspiring  in  Literature,  Art,  Music,  Nature 
and  Humanity.  I  hesitate  to  attempt  to  pick  out  eight  or  ten  poems 
and  books  as  those  of  which  she  was  especially  fond. 

But  an  outline  of  the  growth  in  her  of  some  knowledge  of  the 
world's  greatest  books,  and  of  the  acquisition  by  her  of  some  of  the 
wisdom  taught  by  some  of  these  books,  I  may  be  able  to  give  to  you. 

Going  back  to  the  period  before  her  marriage  on  January  31, 
1843 — she  was  born  January  7,  1827 — Tom  Moore,  Byron  and 
Walter  Scott  had  almost  complete  control  of  her  mind.  She  never 
memorized  poetry — that  is,  she  never  made  a  conscious  effort  to  have 
her  memory  retain  what  she  read.  But  the  poetry  of  Moore  was  so 
impressed  on  her  girlish  mind  that  she  never  forgot  it,  and  up  to  the 
time  when  paralysis  deprived  her  of  her  speech  at  the  age  of  84 
years,  she  could  repeat  page  after  page  of  Lalla  Rookh,  the  Fire- 
worshipers  and  almost  any  of  Moore's  poetry. 

Byron  did  not  act  in  that  way  on  her.  She  could  not  repeat 
his  poetry  from  memory  as  she  could  that  of  Moore.  But  the  words, 
the  verse  of  Byron,  had  a  tone,  for  Mrs.  Bettens,  that  enabled  her 
to  recognize  Byron's  writing  when  it  was  read  aloud  to  her,  she  not 
being  told  that  it  was  his  poetry.  Perhaps  of  all  the  poets,  whose 
poetry  she,  in  a  long  life,  read,  Byron  was  her  favorite  poet. 

Scott  did  not  make  on  her  anything  like  the  impression  made 
by  Moore  and  Byron. 

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Later,  that  is  after  her  marriage,  it  was  Dickens,  Bulwer  and 
Thackeray,  who  came  into  her  life,  and  of  the  three,  Thackeray  never 
left  her.  After  1873  once  a  year  she  would  read  some  of  the  novels 
of  Thackeray. 

At  the  age  of  forty-five,  while  still  living  in  Cincinnati,  a  three- 
volume  edition  of  "The  Earthly  Paradise,"  by  William  Morris,  opened 
up  to  her  Greek  mythology,  life  and  character,  and  wherever  she 
went  those  three  volumes  went  with  her.  She  brought  them  with 
her  to  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  in  June,  1873,  when,  at  the  age 
of  forty-six,  she  joined  her  sons,  Edward  and  Thomas,  who  were 
then  in  Harvard  College. 

There,  in  Cambridge,  in  1873,  and  in  succeeding  years,  Ralph 
Waldo  Emerson,  with  his  essays,  and  James  Freeman  Clarke, 
with  his  lectures,  directed  Mrs.  Bettens  to  a  path  along  which 
she  traveled  for  about  forty  years.  In  that  path  she  made  the 
acquaintance  of  many  men  and  women,  among  them  Goethe,  Homer, 
Aeschylus,  Sophocles,  Euripides,  Plato,  Virgil,  Horace,  Ovid,  Dante, 
Petrarch,  Boccaccio,  Cervantes,  Chaucer,  Robert  Browning,  Alfred 
de  Musset  and  George  Sand. 

Old  age  came  to  her;  for  many  years  she  had  associated  with 
many  of  the  wise  men  and  women  of  the  past.  Turning  to  her 
son,  she  said  in  her  gentle  and  quiet  way,  be 

"Like  the  Eagle,  my  son, 
With  his  wing  on  the  wind, 
And  his  eye  on  the  Sun !" 

and 

"Build  thee  more  stately  mansions,  O  my  soul, 

As  the  swift  seasons  roll ! 

Leave  thy  low  vaulted  past! 
Let  each  new  temple,  nobler  than  the  last, 
Shut  thee  from  Heaven  with  a  dome  more  vast, 

Till  thou  at  length  art  free, 
Leaving  thine  outgrown  shell,  by  Life's  unresting  sea !" 

The  wisdom  of  these  writers  acted  on  Mrs.  Bettens  as  the  beauty 
of  Grecian  Helen — the  curse  of  Troy — acted  on  the  old  men  of  Troy. 

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Sitting  near  the  ramparts  of  that  beleaguered  city,  these  old  men, 
arose,  as  Helen  approached,  thus  involuntarily  paying  homage  to 
loveliness. 

Then  the  great  thoughts  contained  in  the  books  that  Mrs. 
Bettens  read,  obtained  for  her  a  Harbor  of  Safety,  protecting  her 
from  the  pursuing  pirate  ships,  Care  and  Disappointment. 

These  books  earned  for  Mrs.  Bettens  a  reward,  similar  to  that 
won  by  Balaustion,  when  she  sang  the  songs  of  Euripides  as  she 
stood  on  a  Greek  galley  that  was  pursued  by  a  pirate  ship.  The 
hostile  Greeks  in  the  Harbor  in  which  the  Greek  galley  sought  safety, 
won  over  by  the  songs  of  Euripides,  pulled  the  galley  into  the  safe 
harbor,  crowned  Balaustion,  and  the  pirate  ship  missed  its  prey. 

This  Greek  love  of  poetry  permeated  the  mind  of  Mrs.  Bettens 
and  protected  her  from  the  depressing  effects  of  many  sorrows,  cares 
and  disappointments. 

Born  a  Rochat  and  a  Modern,  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  was,  in 
Spirit,  a  Greek  of  the  Age  of  Pericles. 

The  epitaph  on  Sophocles,  supposed  to  have  been  written  by 
Simmias  of  Thebes,  the  pupil  of  Socrates,  made  a  deep  impression  on 
her,  and  she  often  repeated  it  aloud. 

A  translation  of  this  epitaph  is  as  follows : 

"Creep  gently,  ivy,  ever  gently  creep, 

Where  Sophocles  sleeps  on  in  calm  repose; 
Thy  pale  green  tresses  o'er  the  marble  sweep, 

While  all  around  shall  bloom  the  purpling  rose. 
There  let  the  vine  with  rich,  full  clusters  hang, 

Its  fair  young  tendrils  fling  around  the  stone; 
Due  meed  for  the  sweet  wisdom  which  he  sang, 

By  Muses  and  by  Graces  called  their  own." 

This  letter  does  not  state  the  eight  or  ten  poems  and  books  of 
which  my  mother  was  most  fond,  but  it  may  suggest  what  was  "The 
Education  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens". 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 

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THE  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS  ROOM 

IN 

The  Philips  Brooks  House 
Harvard  College 


New  York,  July  28,  1919. 


Mr.  Charles  Ottermann. 

Dear  Mr.  Ottermann  : 

1.  Enclosed  is  a  photograph  of  the  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room  in 
the  Phillips  Brooks  House,  Harvard  College,  before  alteration.  That 
room  being  in  the  condition  as  shown  in  that  photograph,  I  wrote  a 
letter  dated  the  21st  day  of  June,  1916,  to  the  President  and  Fellows 
of  Harvard  College,  a  copy  of  which  letter  is  enclosed. 

2.  With  that  letter  I  sent  to  the  President  and  Fellows  of  Harvard 
College  a  photograph  (copy  enclosed)  of  a  drawing  made  by  Richard 
Rummell  of  that  room,  with  one  chair,  rugs,  tables  and  books,  once  the 
property  of  Mrs.  Bettens,  and  a  portrait  of  her  eldest  child,  Frank,  all 
included  in  that  room.  With  that  furnishing  there  would  be  something 
of  Mrs.  Bettens  in  that  room.  The  authorities  in  control  of  that  room 
decided  that  the  furniture  and  rugs  shown  in  that  suggested  room 
would  be  soon  ruined  by  the  students  and  visitors,  and,  thereupon, 

3.  That  room,  with  the  expert  assistance  of  the  interior  decorators, 
Irving  &  Casson-A.  H.  Davenport  Company,  was  "created,"  contain- 
ing a  table,  chairs,  a  rug,  hangings,  window  seats,  etc.,  none  of  which 
had  belonged  to  Mrs.  Bettens.  A  photograph  of  that  room  thus 
"created"  is  enclosed.  It  is  a  beautiful  and  dignified  room,  but  I  have 
never  seen  it.  The  portraits  and  the  pictures  in  that  room  had  been 
the  property  of  Mrs.  Bettens.  Perhaps  Harvard  College  may  be  will- 
ing to  give  one  of  the  two  portraits  of  Mrs.  Bettens,  now  in  that  room, 
to  Woodward  High  School,  to  be  placed  in  the  Alcove  Room,  where  it 
will  be  surrounded  by  her  books,  bookcases,  pictures,  bronzes,  and  the 
portrait  of  Frank,  her  eldest  child.  The  Alcove  Room  in  this  way  will 
be  permeated  with  the  character  and  surroundings  of  Mrs.  Louise  E. 
Bettens,  and  for  this  I  am  profoundly  grateful. 

Sincerely, 

.  Edward  D.  Bettens. 

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New  York,  June  21,  1916. 


President  and  Fei^ows 

of  Harvard  College. 

Dear  Sirs: 

In  the  Phillips  Brooks  House,  Harvard  College,  is  a  room  in  which 
are  now  portraits  of  my  mother,  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  and  of  my 
brother,  Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  and  landscapes  by  A.  H.  Wyant  and 
Eugene  Deszagg,  all  gifts  to  the  Louise  E.  Bettens  Fund. 

For  your  consideration,  I  herewith  submit  a  printed  sketch,  dated 
June  15,  1916,  of  the  "Life  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens." 

As  an  additional  gift  to  that  Fund,  for  that  room,  I  offer  a  portrait, 
painted  1907  by  Walter  Florian,  of  Frank  Bettens,  who  died  March  10, 
1864,  at  the  age  of  twenty.  He  was  the  first  born  of  the  children  of 
Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens. 

The  following  books,  in  good  condition,  selected  from  the  Library 
of  Mrs.  Bettens,  I  offer  for  that  room : 

Volumes 

Works  of  Charles  Dickens.    Dodd,  Mead  and  Company , 48 

The  Waverley  Novels.     Library  Edition.     A.  &  C.  Black.     J.  B.  Lippincott. .     25 

The  Writings  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  Monticello  Edition.  Issued  under  the 
auspices  of  The  Thomas  Jefferson  Memorial  Association  of  the  United 
States,  Washington,  D.  C.     1904 20 

Balzac's  Works.     Translated.     Roberts  Brothers , 40 

Thackeray's  Works.    No.  285  of  edition  limited  to  one  thousand  copies.  Estes 

and  Lauriat 30 

Works  of  Jonathan  Swift.    Edition  of  Sir  Walter  Scott.     Second  Edition. 

Houghton  Mifflin  &  Co.    Dickers  &  Son 19 

Novels  of  Alexander  Dumas.     Translated.     Estes  and  Lauriat 43 

Works  of  Voltaire.     Translated.     Edition  de  la  Pacification.     No.   136  of 

edition  limited  to  one  thousand  copies  for  America.     E.  R.  Dumont. ...     42 

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To  contain  above  books  I  offer  you  the  choice  of  two,  out  of  four, 
of  the  bookcases  of  Mrs.  Bettens.  Two  of  these  bookcases  are 
mahogany,  style  Chippendale.  The  other  two  are  black  walnut,  of  a 
style  in  vogue  in  New  York  City  about  forty  years  ago.  The  black 
walnut  bookcases  are,  in  my  opinion,  more  durable,  more  valuable 
and  much  handsomer  than  the  mahogany  bookcases.  Herewith  sub- 
mitted is  a  photograph  of  one  of  the  two  similar  black  walnut  book- 
cases. The  mahogany  bookcases  are  sketched  in  a  drawing  of  that 
room,  a  photograph  of  the  drawing  being  herewith  submitted.  This 
drawing  shows  where  the  bookcases  could  be  placed. 

From  the  furniture  of  Mrs.  Bettens,  I  offer  for  that  room  the 
following: 

Two  camel's-hair  Eastern  rugs,  each  about  \2y2  by  7y2  feet. 
They  are  sketched  in  the  drawing  of  this  room.  A  chair  inlaid  with 
mother  of  pearl  and  ivory,  and  an  octagon  table,  both  sketched  in  the 
drawing  of  this  room,  and  both  more  clearly  shown  in  a  photograph 
herewith  submitted.  A  mahogany  desk,  style  Chippendale,  sketched 
in  the  drawing  of  that  room,  and  more  clearly  shown  in  a  photograph 
herewith  submitted. 

I  offer,  for  that  room,  twelve  special  Windsor  mahogany  chairs 
and  four  Ben  Franklin  easychairs  covered  in  leather,  indicated  in 
the  drawing  of  that  room,  but  more  clearly  shown  in  sketches  here- 
with submitted.  Messrs.  Irving  &  Casson-A.  H.  Davenport  Co.,  after 
examining  this  room,  recommend  these  chairs  as  suitable  for  it. 

I  offer  to  have  installed  in  that  room  three  (3)  window  seats 
with  leather  cushions  over  the  radiators.  I  offer  to  have  the  following 
alterations  made  in  this  room,  to  wit: 

Present  floor  removed  and  replaced  by  a  solid  quartered  oak 
floor. 

All  wall  electric  lights  on  North,  South  and  West  walls  to  be 
removed,  and  two  electric  fixtures  installed  in  the  ceiling,  and  room 
to  be  accordingly  wired.  The  door  and  bottom  register  of  ventilator 
in  West  wall,  where  there  is  a  closet,  to  be  removed  and  wall  and 
baseboard  extended  to  South  wall,  closing  up  that  closet. 

Re-paint  ceiling  North,  South  and  West  walls  and  all  woodwork 
on  those  walls. 

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To  maintain  in  good  repair  and  condition  the  before  mentioned 
portraits,  paintings,  books,  rugs  and  furniture  and  electric  lights,  I 
offer  to  give  you  Two  Thousand  ($2,000.)  Dollars,  to  be  kept  intact 
as  a  principal  fund,  but  the  income  to  be  used  for  such  repairs  and 
maintenance  in  good  condition  of  these  portraits,  paintings,  books, 
rugs,  furniture  and  electric  lights,  and  to  replace  any,  if  possible,  that 
may  for  any  reason  cease  to  exist,  or  require  replacement. 

It  is  my  wish  that  the  character  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  be 
impressed  on  this  room.  For  that  reason  the  portraits  of  her  sons 
Frank  and  Thomas  Simms  Bettens  should  be  in  that  room.  Next 
to  her  sons  were  her  books,  and  the  two  bookcases,  with  works  above 
specified,  should  also  be  in  that  room.  She  had  other  books,  some 
of  them  more  valuable  in  many  ways  and  closer  to  her  than  those 
now  offered,  but  they  are  not  so  suitable  for  this  room. 

If  you  accept  my  offer,  perhaps  in  the  room  itself  you  may  be 
willing  to  have  placed  something  appropriate  and  unobtrusive  which 
may  indicate  that  this  room  is  the  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room. 

Respectfully, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


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VI 


THE  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS  MEMORIALS 

IN 

HARVARD  COLLEGE 


April  10,  1917 


New  York,  April  10,  1917. 


Dear  Ware  : 

Your  letter  received.  I  have  always  hoped  that  my  Mother's 
character — one  of  aspiration  under  difficulties — might,  if  known,  help 
and  encourage  others  when  in  trouble.  How  to  call  attention  to  that 
character  was  and  is  the  problem.  I  am  still  working  at  it,  and 
perhaps  will  continue  to  do  so  as  long  as  I  live. 

The  poet  has  described  her  life  of  Aspiration : 

Build  thee  more  stately  mansions,  O  my  soul, 

As  the  swift  seasons  roll ! 

Leave  thy  low  vaulted  past! 

Let  each  new  temple,  nobler  than  the  last, 

Shut  thee  from  Heaven  with  a  dome  more  vast, 

Till  thou  at  length  art  free, 

Leaving  thine  outgrown  shell  by  life's  unresting  sea! 

For  your  consideration,  and  in  answer  to  your  letter,  I  enclose 
a  statement  of  my  Mother's  Memorial  in  Harvard  College.  I  prefer 
that  my  name  be  not  mentioned  in  that  statement  except  where  it  is 
unavoidable. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens, 

Class  of  1873,  Harvard  College. 


Mr.  Arthur  L.  Ware, 

Secretary  Class  of  1873,  Harvard  College. 


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THE  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS  MEMORIAL 

HARVARD  COLLEGE 

Louise  E.  Rochat,  born  January  7,  1827,  on  a  farm  near  Ghent, 
Kentucky,  married  January  31,  1843,  in  Vevay,  Indiana,  to  Alex- 
ander Bettens,  was  the  mother  of  Frank,  Rose,  Edward  Detraz  and 
Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  naming  the  children  in  the  order  of  their 
births. 

Mrs.  Bettens  died  March  23,  1914,  in  New  York  City,  her  hus- 
band and  all  of  her  children  except  Edward  having  predeceased  her. 

The  book,  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  limited  to  150  copies,  printed 
on  Japan  paper,  bound  in  Levant,  with  doublure  and  silk  fly  leaves,  with 
illustrations,  was  for  private  distribution  only. 

There  is  in  Harvard  College  a  foundation  for  a  memorial  of 
Mrs.  Bettens.  Beauty  and  Usefulness  have  been  controlling  factors 
in  establishing  this  memorial,  and  the  Fogg  Art  Museum,  the  Phillips 
Brooks  House  Association  and  the  Widener  Library,  have  united 
in  helping  to  establish  it. 

The  Fogg  Art  Museum  controls  a  sum  of  money,  amounting  at 
present  to  Twenty  Thousand  Dollars,  as  a  principal  fund,  known  as 

THE  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS  FUND 

ESTABLISHED   BY    HER    CHILDREN 

The  income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  used  to  encourage  and  advance 
Painting  by  citizens  of  the  United  States,  including  women,  as  well 
as  men. 

The  Phillips  Brooks  House  Association  has  set  aside  a  room  in 
the  Phillips  Brooks  House  to  be  known  as  The  Louise  E.  Bettens 
Room. 

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The  Phillips  Brooks  House  Association  has  Twenty-five  Hun- 
dred Dollars,  as  a  principal  fund,  to  be  kept  intact  and  to  be  known  as 


THE  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS  FUND 

PHII4JPS  BROOKS   HOUSE  ASSOCIATION 

The  income  of  that  Fund  is  to  further  the  activities  of  the 
Phillips  Brooks  House  Association,  but  is  not  to  be  used  for  the 
maintenance  of  Harvard  College  buildings  or  for  the  expenses  now 
met  by  Harvard  College  or  by  the  existing  Phillips  Brooks  House 
Fund. 

The  Widener  Library,  in  its  Treasure  Room  has  Ten  Books, 
to  which  the  book,  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  is  to  be  added,  and  also 
has  seven  miniatures  painted  by  Alyn  Williams,  all  the  books  and 
the  miniatures  contained  in  one  cabinet. 

The  seven  miniatures  are  as  follows: 

Rose  and  her  Mother 1848 

Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 1864 

Frank  Bettens 1864 

Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  Don  and  Kebo 1906 

Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 1907 

The  Reading  of  the  Medea  of  Euripides  to  Mrs.  Louise 

E.   Bettens 1912 

Edward  Detraz  Bettens 1916 

Incidental  to  this  Memorial,  and  helping  to  make  it  attractive 
and  instructive,  Harvard  College  has  accepted  the  following  paint- 
ings which  are  now  in  the  following  places,  to  wit: 

In  Room  No.  790  of  the  Widener  Library  are: 

The  Head  of  a  Girl,  by  A.  Asti. 

A  Vestal  Virgin,  a  copy  on  Delft  of  the  Vestal  Virgin,  by 
Angelica  Kauffman,  in  the  Dresden  Gallery. 

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In  the  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room,  Phillips  Brooks  House,  are: 

Two  Portraits  of  Mrs.  Bettens  and  One  Portrait  of  Thomas 

Simms  Bettens. 
A  Landscape  in  Oil,  by  A.  H.  Wyant. 
A  Landscape,  Water  Color,  by  Eugene  Deszagg. 

In  the  Fogg  Art  Museum  are: 

Lake  O'Hara,  a  Painting  in  Oil,  by  John  Singer  Sargent. 
Bridle  Path — Tahiti,  a  Water  Color,  by  John  La  Farge. 
Sunday  Morning — Domberg,  a  Water  Color,  by  James  McNeill 

Whistler. 
Monmouth  Before  James  II,  Refusing  to  Reveal  the  Names 

of  his  Accomplices,  an  unfinished  Oil  Painting,  by  John 

Singleton  Copley. 

It  is  not  out  of  place  in  connection  with  this  Memorial  to  men- 
tion the  Fountain  in  the  Harvard  Union,  placed  there  as  a  memorial 
of  Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  by  some  of  his  pupils. 

Nor  should  the  Thomas  Simms  Bettens  Fund,  established  in 
1916  by  the  Harvard  Chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Alpha  of  Massa- 
chusetts, be  overlooked. 


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Cambridge,  Mass.,  June  5,  1917. 


Dear  Mr.  Bettens  : 

I  congratulate  you  heartily  on  the  means  you  have  used  to  com- 
memorate your  mother  at  Harvard  University.  The  Fund  bearing 
her  name  to  be  administered  by  the  authorities  of  the  Fogg  Art 
Museum  is  likely  to  remain  useful  for  centuries.  You  of  course  have 
procured  from  the  President  and  Fellows  of  Harvard  College  a  state- 
ment accepting  the  Funds  on  exact  conditions  of  trust. 

The  Fund  for  the  benefit  of  the  Phillips  Brooks  House  Associa- 
tion will  probably  be  long-lived  and  always  useful. 

The  Cabinet  in  the  Widener  Library  is  a  very  appropriate 
memorial,  but  lacks  of  course  the  enduring  usefulness  of  the  two 
Funds. 

The  valuable  pictures  put  into  the  Fogg  Art  Museum,  if  suitably 
marked,  will  be  a  good  commemoration  so  long  as  the  pictures  endure ; 
for  the  Fogg  Museum  is  an  admirably  secure  building  as  regards 
fire. 

The  best  memorial  of  a  mother  is,  however,  the  work  of  her 
children.  Your  brother  Thomas  did  first-rate  work  as  a  teacher, 
and  the  influence  of  that  work  is  carried  forward  in  his  pupils.  I 
dare  say  you  have  done  work  of  like  value.  Will  it  be  carried  for- 
ward like  your  brother's? 

I  was  interested  to  notice  that  you  took  a  stanza  from  Dr. 
Holmes's  beautiful  poem  called  "The  Chambered  Nautilus"  to  describe 
your  mother's  life.  He,  as  you  know,  was  a  physician  and  a 
Unitarian. 

Sincerely  yours, 

Charles  W.  Eliot. 
Edward  D.  Bettens,  Esq. 


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New  York,  June  6,  1917. 


Dear  Clarke: 

You  and  Beaman*  will,  I  am  sure,  be  interested  in  Dr.  Eliot's 
letter  to  me  dated  June  5th  inst.,  a  copy  of  which  is  enclosed. 
The  wise  and  experienced  Dr.  Eliot  says  in  his  letter  to  me : 

"You,  of  course,  have  procured  from  the  President  and  Fellows  of 
Harvard  College  a  statement  accepting  the  funds  on  the  exact  conditions 
of  trust." 

Have  I? 

I  have  been  less  interested  in  those  funds  (although  they  are 
of  great  interest  to  me  and  to  what  I  am  trying  to  accomplish)  than 
I  have  been  in  the  book  "Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,"  and  what  its 
contents  suggest.  It  is  particularly  what  that  book  suggests  that  I 
have  had  constantly  in  mind.  Anybody  who  has  the  spare  cash  can 
give  money  to  Harvard  College,  and  buy  pictures,  and  furnish  rooms, 
all  of  which  is  very  interesting.  But  to  suggest  a  character  and  a 
life,  omitting  many  details,  is  quite  another  matter.  I  do  not  know 
whether  I  have  succeeded  in  producing  that  kind  of  a  book. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 
Samuel  B.  Clarke,  Esq. 

♦William  S.  Beaman,  Harvard  Class  of  1872. 


VII 

LOOKING  BACK 
April  11,  1919 


LOOKING  BACK 
April  11,  1919 

Since  July,  1907,  an  effort  has  been  made  to  create  an  enduring 
record  of  the  life  and  character  of 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS. 

A  brief  statement  of  some  of  the  means  employed  and  of  their 
money  cost  is  as  follows: 

Cost 

I.  Five  family  portraits  have  been  painted  by  Walter  Florian, 
three  of  which  are  in  the  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room  in  the  Phillips 
Brooks  House,  Harvard  College $3,260.00 

II.  Seven  family  miniatures  have  been  painted  by  Alyn  Williams, 
and  all  are  in  a  case  in  the  Treasure  Room  of  the  Harry  Elkins 
Widener  Library,  Harvard  College 4,742.00 

III.  The  case  above  mentioned  has  been  presented  to  the  Harry 

Elkins  Widener  Library 165.00 

IV.  The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room  in  the  Phillips  Brooks  House, 

Harvard  College,  has  been  repaired  and  furnished 2,733.11 

A  case  in  that  room  for  books,  has  been  presented  to  the 

Phillips  Brooks  House  Association 75.00 

V.  The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Fund,  Phillips  Brooks  House  Associa- 
tion, has  been  created 2,500.00 

VI.  The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Fund,  established  by  her  children,  in  the 
William  Hayes  Fogg  Art  Museum,  Harvard  College,  has  been 
created   20,000.00 

Five  paintings  have  been  presented  to  the  William  Hayes  Fogg 

Art  Museum   8,300.00 

VII.  The  Thomas  Simms  Bettens  Fund,  Harvard  Chapter  of  Phi 

Beta  Kappa  Alpha  of  Massachusetts,  has  been  created 2,000.00 

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VIII.  Five  quarto  volumes  of  inlaid  letters  and  illustrations,  bound  in  cost 

levant,  with  doublure  and  silk  fly  leaves,  have  been  presented  to 
Harvard  College $1,008.00 

Four  of  these  quartos  are  in  the  case  in  the  Treasure  Room 
above  mentioned.  The  fifth  quarto  is  in  the  case  in  the  Louise 
E.  Bettens  Room  in  the  Phillips  Brooks  House. 

IX.  Books,  octavo  in  size,  one  copy  of  each  edition  being  in  the  case 
in  the  Treasure  Room  above  mentioned,  have  been  printed  and 
privately  distributed  as  gifts.     They  are  entitled  as  follows : 

1.  Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  A  Memorial,  325  copies;  printed  on  hand 

made    imperial   Japan   paper;    photogravure    illustrations;    cloth 

covers 637.57 

2.  Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  250  copies ;  printed  on  hand  made  imperial 

Japan  paper ;  photogravure  illustrations ;  bound  in  levant  with 

doublure  and  silk  fly  leaves 4,434.55 

3.  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  150  copies,  25  of  which  were  extra  illus- 

trated; printed  on  hand  made  imperial  Japan  paper;  photographs 

as  illustrations ;  bound  in  levant  with  doublure  and  silk  fly  leaves      2,078.90 

4.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  250  copies ;  printed  on  Strathmore  paper  de 

luxe,  photographs  as  illustrations ;  cloth  covers 1,278.81 

5.  The  Family  of  Mrs.   Louise  E.   Bettens,  350  copies ;  printed  on 

Strathmore  paper  de   luxe ;  photographs  as   illustrations ;   cloth 

covers 1,611.50 

6.  Painter  and  Patron,  650  copies;  printed  on  Strathmore  paper  de 

luxe ;  half  tone  illustrations ;  cloth  covers 1,489.29 

7.  Picture  Buying,  650  copies ;  printed  on  Strathmore  paper  de  luxe ; 

half  tone  illustrations ;  cloth  covers 1,341.47 

8.  Picture  Buying,  450  copies;  printed  on  Dill  &  Collins  superb  dull 

coated  paper ;  half  tone  illustrations ;  paper  covers 330.41 

9.  Art  Museums  and  Artists,  1,200  copies  of  a  paper  covered  Brochure 

printed  on  Strathmore  paper  de  luxe 102.50 


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VIII 


TEMPTATIONS 


New  York,  August  7th,  1919. 


Mr.  Charles  Ottermann. 


Dear  Mr.  Ottermann  : 

Your  letter  postmarked  August  5th,  was  received  by  me  yester- 
day afternoon. 

The  books  and  the  three  walnut  bookcases  are  now  in  Woodward 
High  School.  The  24  pictures  and  prints  have  also,  probably,  been 
received  and  stored  in  Woodward  by  this  time.  The  bronzes  ought  to 
be  expressed  to  Woodward  by  Tiffany  &  Co.  about  August  21st,  1919. 

It  is  my  wish  that  all  of  these  articles  be  placed  in  Woodward 
High  School  as  you  and  your  advisers  decide  is  advisable,  with  the 
following  exceptions,  to  wit : 

1.  The  two  Kip  bookcases  should  be  placed,  opposite  each  other, 
near  the  group  of  the  three  windows  in  the  Alcove  Room,  so  that  the 
light  from  those  windows  will  bring  out  all  the  beauty  that  is  in  these 
bookcases. 

2.  The  portrait  of  my  brother  Frank,  together  with  three  of  the 
bronzes,  should  be  placed — the  portrait  over,  and  the  bronzes  on,  one  of 
the  Kip  bookcases  as  shown  in  Diagram  II. 

3.  The  photograph  of  The  Reading  of  the  Medea  to  my  Mother, 
should  be  placed  over  the  other  Kip  bookcase,  and  the  three  other 
bronzes  on  it,  as  shown  in  Diagram  IV. 

4.  My  name  as  donor  must  not  be  put  on  any  of  the  24  pictures  and 
prints  or  on  any  metal  tablet  that  may  be  affixed  to  such  pictures  and 
prints. 

But  at  my  expense,  a  suitable  metal  tablet  should  be  affixed  to 
each  of  these  24  pictures  and  prints  except  The  Reading  of  the  Medea, 

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and  Frank's  portrait.    On  each  of  these  tablets  the  following  words, 
or  something  equally  simple  and  appropriate,  should  be  inscribed : 

In 

Memory 

of 

Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 

I  gave  to  the  Fogg  Art  Museum,  Harvard  College,  five  valuable 
paintings,  but  I  personally  saw  to  it  that  my  name  as  donor  should 
not  appear  on  any  of  the  frames  of  those  pictures.  At  my  request  the 
inscription  on  the  metal  plate  affixed  to  these  pictures  is  as  follows: 

THE  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS  FUND 

Again,  I  paid  for  the  alteration,  decoration  and  furnishing  of  the 
Louise  E.  Bettens  Room,  but  my  name  as  donor  nowhere  appears  in 
or  about  that  room.  It  is  distinguished,  as  I  understand  it  (I  have 
never  seen  the  room)  as  the  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room,  such  descrip- 
tion being  placed  somewhere  near  the  entrance  of  the  room. 

Your  letter  tells  me  that  your  mother  was  a  pupil  in  Woodward 
in  1867,  as  Miss  Dena  Kasting,  and  that  she  tells  you  that  Joseph 
Rawson  and  I,  members  of  the  Class  of  1868,  Woodward,  were  close 
friends.  Please  give  your  Mother  my  warmest  regards,  for  I  thank 
her  for  reminding  me  of  one  of  the  pleasantest  days  of  my  life.  Raw- 
son  entered  Harvard  in  the  Class  of  1872,  that  is,  he  went  to  Harvard 
in  the  Fall  of  1868.  I  worked  for  one  year  in  Cincinnati  and  then  in  the 
Fall  of  1869  entered  Harvard  College  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1873.  In  the  Fall  of  1869  on  "Bloody  Monday  Night"  the  Freshmen, 
I  being  with  them,  assembled  on  a  dark  night  in  the  College  Yard  to 
do  battle  with  the  Sophomores,  Rawson  being  one  of  them.  Fierce, 
and  with  varying  success,  did  the  battle  rage,  with  no  vigilant  Proctor 
to  stem  the  surging  masses.  It  is  not  for  me  to  describe  the  conflict, 
for  it  was  too  dark  for  me  to  distinguish  any  individual  on  that  night. 
But,  I  soon  found  that  I  was  lying  prostrate  on  the  body  of  a  fallen 
Sophomore  pinning  him  to  the  ground.    He  spoke.    It  was  the  voice 

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of  Rawson  and  we  laughingly  parted,  no  one  being  injured  by  that 
encounter. 

But  that  dark  night  is  not  the  pleasant  day  referred  to  by  me 
above — that  pleasant  day  came  to  me  after  I  had  graduated  in  1873 
and  was  a  Proctor  in  Harvard  College.  Rawson  on  his  wedding  tour 
came  to  my  Proctor's  Room  and  told  me  that  he  would  pay  my  ex- 
penses on  a  trip  over  Europe.  I  stepped  from  where  he  and  I  were 
standing  to  the  chimney,  walked  back,  and  said,  "Joe,  I  thank  you,  but 
cannot  accept  your  offer."    That  is  the  pleasant  day  referred  to. 

During  the  three  years  of  my  Proctorship  in  Harvard  College, 
beginning  with  the  Fall  of  1873,  three  temptations  came  to  me: 

1.  The  chance  to  become  a  teacher  in  the  Boston  Latin  School  at 
an  initial  salary  of  $2,600  per  year.  President  Eliot  dissuaded  me  from 
trying  to  obtain  the  position. 

2.  The  generous  offer  of  Rawson  to  give  me  the  benefit  of  a 
European  tour.  Perhaps  it  was  simple  common  sense  on  my  part  that 
induced  me  not  to  accept  his  offer.  But,  at  bottom,  was  the  fact  that 
where  I  was  to  be  I  intended  that  my  Mother  should  also  be  there. 
Rawson  did  not  know  this. 

3.  Mr.  Soley,  a  Harvard  graduate,  was  during  my  Proctorship  at 
Harvard  the  Professor  of  History  in  Annapolis  Academy.  Dean  Gurney 
was  a  Professor  of  History  in  Harvard  College.  I  had  obtained  from 
Harvard  College  honors  for  proficiency  in  History.  Annapolis  Academy 
wanted  an  assistant  professor  of  History  at  $1,800  per  year,  to  teach 
eight  months  per  year,  and  in  the  remaining  four  months  to  have  the 
privilege  of  going  to  foreign  parts  on  a  U.  S.  vessel  in  which  were 
students  of  the  Academy.  Mr.  Soley  consulted  Professor  Gurney. 
Professor  Gurney  recommended  me  as  the  Assistant  Professor.  Mr. 
Soley  and  I  talked  it  over ;  he  over-persuaded  me  so  that  one  afternoon 
I  agreed  to  accept  the  position.  Sober  second  thought  resulted  in  my 
informing  Mr.  Soley  the  next  morning  that  I  would  not  accept  the  posi- 
tion. He  had  a  very  sharp  tongue  and  I  got  from  him  what  I  probably 
deserved,  a  severe  tongue  lashing,  for  accepting  one  afternoon  and  reject- 
ing the  next  morning  this  position  as  Assistant  Professor. 

At  the  end  of  my  three  years'  Proctorship  I  came  to  the  City  of 
New  York  and  was  very  glad  to  obtain  a  salary  of  $10.  a  week  as  a 

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clerk  in  the  law  office  of  Barlow  &  Olney,  both  of  whom  were  Harvard 
graduates. 

About  45  years  have  passed  since  Rawson  called  on  me  in  that 
Proctor's  Room  and  made  me  his  generous  offer,  and  I  believe  that  he 
and  I  have  continued  ever  since  to  be  and  are  now  as  close  friends  as 
we  ever  were, — even  if  he  is  today  Vice-President  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Cincinnati,  and  I  only  an  humble  depositor  in  a  similar 
bank  in  the  City  of  New  York. 

Therefore,  I  again  thank  your  Mother  for  stirring  up  these  mem- 
ories of  the  past. 

Just  as  I  had  finished  this  letter  there  comes  to  me  your  letter 
stating  that  last  year  there  were  81  teachers  in  Woodward  High 
School,  and  about  1400  boys  and  girls.  The  totals  amaze  me,  as  my 
class  of  1868  had  only  about  33  pupils  on  graduation,  but  I  thank  you 
for  the  information  which  you  have  given  me. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


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WOODWARD   HIGH   SCHOOL 

CINCINNATI 


CHARLES    OTTERMANN 
PRINCIPAL 


August  5,  1919. 

Mr.  Edward  D.  Bettens, 
130  West  87th  St., 

New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

Dear  Mr.  Bettens: 

I  am  now  in  a  position  to  answer  your  questions  of  July  27. 

1.  In  addition  to  the  principal,  assistant  principal,  librarian,  and 
secretary,  there  were  eighty-one  teachers  in  Woodward  in  the  school 
year  ending  June  1919. 

2.  The  information  answering  your  #2  and  #3  I  have  taken 
from  the  annual  report  of  last  school  year.  The  statistics  are  as 
follows : 

No.  Enrolled  Average  No.  Attended 

Boys     Girls  Boys    Girls 

A 112  92  96  81 

B 157  138  136  123 

C 155  231  126  177 

D 382  440  290  344 

Total 806        901  648        725 

I  trust  the   above    gives    you    the    information    which  you  are 

seeking. 

Sincerely, 

Charles  Ottermann. 


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IX 

FRANK  BETTENS 
1844,  January  14 — March  10,  1864 


1827  SHERMAN   AVENUE 

NORWOOD,    OHIO 


August  8,  1919. 

Mr.  Edward  Detraz  Bettens, 
New  York. 

Dear  Sir: 

I  have  just  read  your  book  "Picture  Buying",  and  I  notice  in  the 
sketch  of  the  life  of  your  mother  you  speak  of  your  residence  in  Cin- 
cinnati and  the  death  there  of  your  brother  Frank. 

Did  your  family  attend  the  Seventh  Presbyterian  Church  on 
Broadway?  Did  your  brother  associate  with  one  of  my  name,  who 
spent  one  night  watching  at  his  sick  bed? 

You  speak  of  your  mother  attending  the  lectures  of  the  Rev. 
James  Freeman  Clarke.  I  happen  to  be  at  this  present  time  in  corre- 
spondence with  his  daughter.  Pardon  my  curiosity,  but  I  am  wonder- 
ing whether  you  are  of  the  family  of  Bettens  I  knew,  and  brother  to 
one  of  my  dearest  friends. 

Yours  truly, 

D.  W.  Mieeer. 


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New  York,  August  11,  1919. 

Mr.  D.  W.  Miller, 

1827  Sherman  Avenue, 

Norwood,  Ohio. 

Dear  Mr.  Miller: 

Your  letter  of  8th  instant,  received  by  me  this  morning,  opens 
the  flood  gates  of  my  memory. 

You  were  the  dearest  friend  of  my  brother  Frank,  outside  of  his 
immediate  family.  His  mother  and  her  three  sons  were  members  of 
the  Seventh  Presbyterian  Church  on  Broadway,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
of  which  church  your  father  was  an  Elder.  Your  namesake, 
Charles  Miller,  was  at  Frank's  bedside,  the  night  that  Frank  died, 
March  10,  1864. 

It  was  Charles  Miller  that  arranged  for  the  photographing 
of  Frank  on  March  11,  1864,  the  day  after  Frank's  death,  and  I  have 
in  my  possession  the  negative  of  that  photograph. 

From  that  negative,  the  painter,  Walter  Florian,  painted  in  1907, 
a  portrait  of  Frank,  and  that  portrait  is  now  in  Woodward  High 
School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  in  a  short  time  it  will  hang  in  the  Grad- 
uates' Alcove,  on  the  second  floor  of  that  school  building. 

One  of  my  treasures  is  a  little  wooden  box,  whose  dimensions 
are  Sj4  inches  in  length,  5  inches  in  width  and  5  inches  in  height. 
Its  cover  is  hinged  on  the  main  body  of  the  box,  and  there  is  a  lock. 

The  top  of  the  box  has  on  it  a  fine  landscape ;  on  the  front  and  two 
sides  of  the  box  are  beautiful  designs,  painted  in  various  colors.  The 
rest  of  the  cover  and  the  sides  are  painted  black,  with  a  border  of  red 
and  gold,  and  the  cover  and  all  the  sides  are  finely  varnished. 

That  box  I  received  from  one  of  the  painters*  in  your  father's 
carriage  manufacturing  establishment  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  when,  one 
summer,  I  painted  carriage  wheels  in  that  establishment.  That  work- 
man having  a  fancy  for  me,  made  that  box,  painted  it  and  gave  it  to 
me.     I  keep  it  in  my  safe,  but  it  is  now  before  me  on  my  desk,  and 

♦"Probably  Luke  Ward,  foreman  of  the  paint  department  and  an  expert  at  land- 
scapes," writes  Mr.  D.  W.  Miller. 

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from  it  I  have  taken  a  photograph  of  Frank,  made  March  11,  1864, 
the  day  after  he  died,  and  I  am  sending  it  to  you  with  this  letter.  You 
can  keep  it.     In  the  same  box  is  a  lock  of  Frank's  brown  hair. 

I  remember  two  other  boyhood  friends  of  Frank.  One  was  a 
Woodward  classmate  of  Frank's,  Philip  N.  Lilienthal,  the  son  of 
Rabbi  Lilienthal  of  Cincinnati.  Philip  and  Frank  often  studied 
together  in  the  Rabbi's  house,  the  Rabbi  at  times  helping  them  in 
their  studies. 

The  other  boy  friend  of  Frank  was  Weston — whose  first  name 
I  forget.  Weston's  father  made  lightning  rods,  and  young  Weston 
became  known  as  "Steeple  Jack",  for  his  daring  in  climbing  to  the 
top  of  church  steeples  in  Cincinnati  in  the  performance  of  his  duties 
in  placing  lightning  rods  on  those  steeples. 

Your  letter  refers  to  my  mother's  attending  the  lectures  of  the 
Rev.  James  Freeman  Clarke,  and  that  you,  at  the  present  time,  are 
in  correspondence  with  a  daughter  of  the  Reverend  James  Freeman 
Clarke. 

With  this,  my  letter  to  you,  I  am  sending  to  you  an  uncorrected 
copy  of  a  printed  proof,  received  by  me  last  Saturday  afternoon,  of 
a  book  entitled,  "The  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E  Bettens",  which  you 
can  keep. 

At  page  52,  please  read  what  is  there  said  about  the  influence  of 
the  lectures  of  the  Rev.  James  Freeman  Clarke  on  my  mother,  when  in 
1873,  at  the  age  of  46,  she  joined  her  sons,  Edward  and  Thomas,  in 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  The  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Free- 
man Clarke  may  be  pleased  to  know  that  her  father  was  a  potent  factor 
in  guiding  my  mother,  although  I  believe  that  my  mother  never  spoke 
to  him.  She  sat  in  the  audience  when  he  lectured  in  Boston,  and  then 
read  the  books  that  he  recommended. 

At  page  21  of  the  book,  "The  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens", 
is  a  reference  to  my  painting  carriage  wheels  in  your  father's  carriage 
establishment.     But  the  whole  book  may  interest  you. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 
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Frank  Bettens 
born  january  14.  1844        died  march  10.  is64 


FROM   A   PAINTING   IN   MINIATURE  BY 
ALYN  WILLIAMS 


X 


A  Portrait 
of 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 

FOR 

Woodward  High  School 


New  York,  August  25th,  1919. 


Miss  Eleanor  C.  O'Conneee. 


Dear  Miss  O'Conneee: 

A  letter  from  Mr.  Ottermann  received  this  morning  informs  me 
that  the  three  large  bookcases  are  set  up  in  the  Alcove  Room  of  Wood- 
ward High  School  and  that  the  Globe- Wernicke  Company's  charge 
for  their  units,  tops  and  bases  for  that  Alcove  Room,  specified  in 
their  two  letters  to  Mr.  Ottermann,  dated  August  21,  1919,  is  $263.67. 
I  have  mailed  to  Mr.  Ottermann  my  check  to  his  order  for  $263.67,  to 
be  paid  to  the  Globe- Wernicke  Company,  after  they  shall  have  rendered 
a  bill.  This,  of  course,  means  that  the  Globe- Wernicke  Company's 
units,  tops  and  bases,  are  to  be  delivered  to  Woodward  High  School, 
set  up,  and  a  reasonable  time  is  to  elapse  thereafter,  to  enable  Mr. 
Ottermann  to  decide  whether  there  are  defects  in  any  of  the  units, 
tops  or  bases. 

Thank  you  for  telling  me  that  Kilgour,  and  not  Kilgore,  is  the 
proper  spelling  of  one  of  the  streets  on  which  Mrs.  Bettens  and  her 
children  at  one  time  lived. 

I  enclose  a  photograph  received  by  me  last  week  from  Alman 
&  Company,  the  photographers,  which  is  not  to  be  returned  to  me. 
It  is  a  reproduction  of  the  earliest  photographs  of  Mrs.  Bettens  and 
her  sons  that  I  have — photographs  made  in  March,  1864,  she  being 
thirty-seven  years  old,  Frank  being  twenty,  I  sixteen  and  Tom  thirteen. 
The  Reading  of  the  Medea  of  Euripides  to  Mrs.  Bettens  on  November 
25,  1912,  when  she  was  eighty-five  years  old,  is  her  last  photograph. 
Among  the  twenty-four  pictures  given  by  me,  recently,  to  Woodward 
High  School,  is  a  photograph,  on  platinum  paper,  of  the  Reading  of 
the  Medea  of  Euripides. 

Her  portrait,  painted  in  1907,  when  she  was  eighty  years  old, 
is  in  the  Phillips  Brooks  House,  Harvard  College,  and  perhaps  Har- 
vard College  may  give  that  portrait  to  Woodward  High  School. 


In  the  meantime  it  may  be  advisable  to  have  in  the  Alcove  Room 
the  following  substitutes  for  that  portrait,  to  wit : 

1.  The  photograph  of  the  Reading  of  the  Medea  of  Euripides  to  Mrs. 

Bettens,  which  Woodward  High  School  now  has. 

2.  A  photograph,  in  my  possession,  of  the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Bettens 

painted  in  1907,  which  photograph  was  made  directly  from 
that  portrait.  It  is  framed  in  antique  gilt,  and  measures,  frame 
included,  22  x  18  inches.  It  is  an  admirable  photograph  of  that 
portrait,  and  I  will  send  it  to  Woodward  High  School  if  my 
suggestion  is  approved. 

3.  The  group  photograph  of  Mrs.  Bettens  and  her  sons  in   1864, 

which  I  am  herewith  sending  to  you,  to  be  framed,  at  my 
expense,  with  a  frame  to  harmonize  with  the  frames  of  the 
two  photographs   above  mentioned. 

Grouped  together,  these  three  photographs  will  show  Mrs. 
Bettens  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven,  when,  in  the  lowest  depth  of  poverty 
and  sorrow,  her  eldest  child  had  just  left  her. 

Then  she  is  seen  in  the  1907  portrait,  at  the  age  of  eighty,  a 
few  months  after  Tom  had  followed  Frank.  Then,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-five,  in  the  Reading  of  the  Medea  of  Euripides,  in  1912,  Mrs. 
Bettens  has  with  her  her  surviving  child. 

At  the  age  of  about  twenty-four,  Mrs.  Bettens,  then  living  in  the 
Bettens  Home  in  Vevay,  began  to  feel  the  pressure  of  the  approaching 
financial  and  other  troubles  which  soon  almost  overwhelmed  her.  This 
was  about  1852. 

After  1852,  Mrs.  Bettens  at  one  time  taught  school  in  a  little 
log  house,  on  a  farm  in  Kentucky,  almost  opposite  to  the  Bettens  Home. 
One  of  her  pupils  in  that  log  house,  a  girl  about  seven  years  of  age  at 
that  time,  after  she  had  grown  to  womanhood,  wrote  to  me  a  letter 
dated  July  9,  1918,  in  which  she  says : 

"One  picture,  when  your  Mother  taught  school  in  the  little  log  house 
on  my  father's  farm,  made  a  lasting  impression  on  my  memory.  Our 
farm  in  Kentucky  was  almost  opposite  your  Mother's  home  in  Indiana, 
and  she  crossed  the  river  every  Friday  afternoon — my  father  rowing  her 
over  in  a  skiff — returning  for  her  on  Sunday  evening.     Often  I  would  be 

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allowed  to  go  along,  but  one  time  the  river  was  unusually  rough,  great 
white-capped  waves  rolled  high — the  wind  all  day  had  blown  furiously. 
There  was  danger,  but  one  of  her  boys  was  sick — and  the  mother-heart 
was  willing  to  brave  wind  and  water  to  get  home. 

My  father,  knowing  her  anxiety,  started  across  the  waters  in  the 
frail  little  boat,  but  would  not  let  me  go  with  them.  Standing  on  the 
banks — a  child  of  seven  years — I  did  not  realize  the  danger  as  I  watched 
wave  after  wave  rising  higher  and  higher,  until  all  were  hidden  from 
view.  In  the  middle  of  the  river  they  were  compelled  to  turn  back  to 
the  Kentucky  shore — the  crossing  could  not  be  made — but  early  in  the 
morning,  with  more  favorable  elements,  your  Mother  reached  home 
and  family.  The  circumstance  has  been  more  vividly  brought  to  mind 
since  reading  your  books,  and,  young  as  I  was  at  the  time,  I  remember 
the  respect  and  regard  my  parents  had  for  your  Mother  as  teacher  and 
guest  in  our  home." 

From  Vevay,  Mrs.  Bettens  and  her  sons  went  to  Bennington, 
Indiana,  a  place  about  ten  miles  from  Vevay,  and  there  she  taught 
school  for  a  short  time.  It  was  from  Bennington  that  Mrs.  Bettens, 
and  her  three  sons,  went  to  Cincinnati  about  1857 — their  first  home  in 
that  city  being  in  Fifth  Street,  near  Broadway.  Her  first  efforts  in 
Cincinnati  at  making  money  were  as  a  copyist  for  lawyers — not  in 
their  offices,  but  doing  the  work  at  home.  But,  this  not  supporting 
her  and  her  family,  she  sewed  garments,  for  manufacturers,  doing 
the  work  at  home.  From  the  Fifth  Street  rooms,  Mrs.  Bettens  and 
her  sons  moved  into  the  top  floor  of  one  of  Henry  Brachmann's  busi- 
ness houses  on  Third  Street,  near  Walnut.  Mr.  Brachmann  was  the 
husband  of  one  of  the  sisters  of  my  father. 

From  those  rooms  on  Third  Street,  we  moved  into  a  single  room 
in  a  business  house  owned  by  one  of  the  Kilgour  family,  on  Broad- 
way, near  Third  Street.  One  of  her  neighbors  in  that  Broadway 
house  was  a  Mr.  Bussey — a  workman  in  the  employ  of  the  Shillito 
Dry  Goods  House.  It  was  Mr.  Bussey  who  obtained  for  Mrs.  Bettens 
a  position  as  an  operator  on  a  sewing  machine  in  Shillito's. 

From  the  Broadway  room,  Mrs.  Bettens,  her  sister,  and  her  sons, 
moved  about  1861  into  a  room  on  Kilgour  Street,  and  there  the  five 
lived  in  that  one  room  until  I,  in  the  fall  of  1869,  left  for  Harvard 
College,  Tom  joining  me  in  Harvard  in  the  Fall  of  1870  and  our 

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Mother  joining  Tom  and  me,  in  Cambridge,  June,  1873.  Her  financial 
support  of  me  ceased  when  I  graduated  from  Woodward  High  School 
in  June,  1868,  and  her  financial  support  of  Tom  ceased  when  he  entered 
Harvard  College  in  the  Fall  of  1870.  After  Tom  left  for  Harvard  in 
the  Fall  of  1870,  Mrs.  Bettens  left  the  Kilgour  room,  and  lived,  more 
comfortably,  in  a  house  located,  I  believe,  near  Seventh  and  Race 
Streets.  It  was  in  that  house  that  she  made  the  acquaintance  of  the 
Harvard  Graduate  who  gave  her,  on  Thanksgiving  Day,  1872,  the 
three  volumes  of  the  Earthly  Paradise  by  William  Morris. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


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XI 


GOOD-BYE 


New  York,  August  21,  1919. 
Mr.  Charles  Ottermann. 

Dear  Mr.  Ottermann: 

Please,  in  my  name,  thank  assistant  principal,  Mr.  Jones,  for  what  he  has 
done  in  arranging,  in  the  Graduates'  Alcove,  Woodward  High  School,  the  three 
bookcases.  His  ideas  measure  up  to  a  wish  expressed  by  me,  in  a  letter  dated 
August  4,  1919  to  Miss  O'Connell,  that 

"a  sine  qua  non  of  the  arrangement  of  the  bookcases,  pictures  and 
bronzes,  should  be  that  this  Alcove  Room,  so  furnished,  will  at  once 
appeal  to  the  visitor,  because  of  its  pleasing  and  artistic  effect." 

Woodward  High  School  has  a  copy  of  the  book  entitled  "Mrs.  Louise  E. 
Bettens",  which  contains  a  letter  from  me  dated  April  10,  1917  to  Mr.  Arthur 
L.  Ware,  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1873  (my  class)  Harvard  College,  describing 
the  memorials  of  my  mother,  in  Harvard  College.* 

After  the  memorial  of  my  mother  in  Woodward  High  School  shall  have  been 
established,  I  may  write  to  Mr.  Ware  a  letter  amending  a  paragraph  of  the  letter 
to  him  dated  April  10,  1917,  which  amended  paragraph  is  as  follows,  the  amend- 
ments being  in  parentheses : 

"There  (are)  in  Harvard  College  (and  in  Woodward  High  School, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio),  foundations  for  memorials  of  Mrs.  Bettens.  Beauty 
and  Usefulness  have  been  controlling  factors  in  establishing  (these) 
memorials,  and  the  Fogg  Art  Museum,  the  Phillips  Brooks  House 
Associations,  the  Widener  Library  (and  Woodward  High  School)  have 
united  to  establish  (them). 

The  1,600  books  of  my  mother's  library,  her  book  cases,  her  paintings, 
engravings  and  other  pictures  and  some  of  her  bronzes,  in  Woodward,  as  her 
memorial  there,  with  the  Memorials  in  Harvard  described  in  my  letter  to  Mr.  Ware 
dated  April  io,  1917,  and  the  books,  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  Louise  E.  Bettens, 
The  Family  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  Painter  and  Patron,  Picture  Buying,  Art 
Museums  and  Artists,  and  The  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  taken  together, 
constitute  the  outward  and  visible  memorial  of  a  life  and  character  distinguished 
because  of  its  Beauty  and  Usefulness. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 

♦Reprinted  at  pages  63-65  of  The  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  Part  One. 

96 


New  York,  July  22,  1919. 


Edward  P.  Usher,  Esq.* 

Dear  Usher: 

Last  Saturday,  July  19,  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  received  from  me  as  a  gift  the  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E. 
Bettens,  my  mother,  containing  about  1600  books.  Yesterday  I 
received  from  you  and  read  a  book,  of  fifty-four  pages,  in  memory 
of  your  son,  Albert  Morse  Usher,  Company  I,  107th  U.  S.  Infantry. 
Today  there  will  leave  New  York  City  for  Woodward  High  School 
three  bookcases  that  had  belonged  to  Mrs.  Bettens,  and  in  a  short 
time  these  will  be  followed  by  twenty-four  paintings,  engravings, 
etchings,  mezzotint,  drawing  and  prints,  and  also  six  bronze  pieces, 
all  once  owned  by  Mrs.  Bettens. 

These  books,  book  cases,  pictures  and  bronzes  are  to  go  into  a 
well-lighted  room,  called  the  Graduates'  Alcove,  in  Woodward  High 
School,  the  dimensions  of  the  room  being  18  feet  4  inches  in  width, 
27  feet  7  inches  in  length,  and  13  feet  3  inches  in  height. 

One  or  two  cases,  with  glass  tops  and  sides,  are  to  be  in  the 
Graduates'  Alcove,  and  will  contain  finely  bound  books,  and  also 
copies  of  the  books  in  memory  of  my  mother  and  brother,  copies  of 
which  books  you  have. 

If  you  do  not  object  I  will  have  Stikeman  &  Co.  bind  the 
Memorial  Book  that  I  received  from  you  yesterday  in  cloth,  the  same 
as  the  books  "Painter  and  Patron,"  "Picture  Buying,"  and  "Art 
Museums  and  Artists."  On  the  front  cover  of  your  son's  Memorial 
Book,  the  binders  will  put,  in  gilt,  everything  that  is  on  the  paper 
cover  of  the  book  you  sent  me. 

Then  I  will  ask  the  Principal  of  Woodward  High  School  to  put 
your  son's  Memorial  Book  in  one  of  those  two  cases. 

*Class  of  1873,  Harvard  College. 

97 


The  boys  and  girls  of  Woodward  High  School  for  generations 
to  come,  may,  from  the  books  in  that  book  case,  receive  a  light  that 
may  brighten  their  lives,  for  from  that  book  case  will  shine  out  a 
mother,  a  teacher  and  an  artist-soldier,  each  one  an  inspiration  to 
all  boys  and  girls,  who  are  willing  to  examine  the  books. 

It  is  perhaps  fitting  that  a  memorial  of  your  son  should  be  with 
memorials  of  my  mother  and  brother. 

You  and  I  first  met  as  Freshmen  in  Harvard  College,  in  Sep- 
tember, 1869.  We  were  room-mates  in  Stoughton  2,  Harvard  Col- 
lege, during  our  Freshman  year  in  Harvard. 

Fifty  years  having  passed,  since  those  days,  you  and  I  can  now, 
in  imagination,  stand  together  in  the  Graduates'  Alcove  in  Wood- 
ward High  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  before  the  book  case  which 
will  contain  the  memorial  books  of  your  son,  my  mother  and  brother ; 
and  there  you  and  I  can  wait  until  we  say,  one  to  the  other,  Good- 
Bye,  as  one  of  us  departs  for  the  Unknown. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


98 


"When  the  sky's  growing  dark,  and  the  red  sun  is  setting, 

We  should  stir  up  the  embers,  and  call  upon  the  elves 
Of  Mirth  and  Content,  and  all  troubles  forgetting, 

Make  a  gay  world  for  others — and  so  for  ourselves. 
"Tis  the  Beauty  of  Age,  to  be  tranquil  and  gentle, 

Whatsoever  it  be,  making  best  of  its  lot. 
And  though  gray  locks  and  crowsfeet  are  not  ornamental, 

There's  a  grace  that  can  hallow  and  make  them  forget. 

So,  a  welcome  to  all  that  my  Fate  may  provide  me, 

Be  it  joy  or  sorrow,  a  cross  or  a  crown ! 
Here's  a  grasp  of  the  hand  for  the  comrades  beside  me ! 

Here's  a  smiling  Good-Bye  as  the  curtain  comes  down ! 
And  when  the  play's  over  and  everything  ended, 

And  you  hear,  in  your  musing,  the  sound  of  a  knell, 
Give  me  one  loving  thought,  for  the  good  I  intended, 

And  a  rose  for  my  pall,  as  you  bid  me  Farewell!" 


99 


Edward   Detraz   Bettens 

APRIL  6,  1914 
AT  THE  AGE  OF  SIXTY-SIX 


FROM    A    PHOTOGRAPH    BY    ALMAN    a    CO 


PART  TWO 
THE  LIBRARY 

OF 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 


INDEX 

To  the  Catalogue  oe  the  Library  of 

MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 

Books  Offered  to  and  Accepted  by  Woodward  High  School 
Cincinnati,  Ohio 


Number  of 
Page  Volumes 


I.  Poetry,  Dramas  and  Plays,  Mainly  Modern 105  201 

II.  Greek  Literature  and  Books  Relating  to  Greek  Subjects  115  90 

III.  Latin  Literature 123  12 

IV.  Essays,  Autobiographies,  Biographies,  Memoirs,  Diaries, 

Letters,  Books  of  Philosophy  and  Kindred  Subjects. .  127  180 

V.  Painting,  Sculpture  and  Architecture 137  213 

VI.  Examples  of  the  Art  of  Binding 147  23 

VII.  Prose  Works  of  Imagination 153  260 

VIII.  Historical 157  85 

IX.  Miscellaneous 163  94 

X.  Special 171  158 

1326 


For  whom  the  book,  The  Library  of  Mrs.  Louise  E. 
Bettens,  has  been  privately  printed 179 — 182 


ILLUSTRATIONS 
Part  Two 

Interiors  of  130  West  87th  street,  New  York  City,  the  home  of 
Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens  from  January  1,  1894,  to  March  13,  1914. 

Page 

XVII.  The  Library,  facing  north .  106 

XVIII.  The  Library,  southeast  corner 114 

XIX.  The  Library,  southwest  corner 122 

XX.  The  Dining  Room,  southeast  corner 126 

XXI.  The  Dining  Room,  northwest  corner 134 

XXII.  Second  Story  Rear,  A.  Dreamer 180 


POETRY,  DRAMAS  AND  PLAYS 
Mainly  Modern 


No. 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Lord  Byron.  Full  calf  with  gold  ornamentation  on 
covers  and  back.  Crown  8  Vo.  Extra  illustrated  with  199  landscape 
and  portrait  engravings  by  E.  Finden.     John  Murray,  1855 6 

A  Treasury  of  English  Sonnets,  from  the  original  sources,  with  notes  and 
illustrations.  By  David  M.  Main.  yA  Morocco.  12  Mo.  R.  Worth- 
ington 1 

The  Poetical  Works  and  Other  Writings  of  John  Keats.  Edited  with  notes 
and  appendices  by  H.  Buxton  Forman.  A  re-issue  with  additions  and 
corrections.  Cloth,  gold  decorations  on  front  cover.  Crown  8  Vo. 
Reeves  and  Turner,   1889 4 

Sakoontala,  or  The  Lost  Ring.  An  Indian  Drama  translated  into  English 
prose  and  verse  from  the  Sanskrit  of  Kalidasa,  by  Monier  Williams. 
Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     Dodd,  Mead  and  Company 1 

Poems,  chiefly  in  the  Scottish  Dialect,  by  Robert  Burns.  No.  225  of  the 
reprint  and  facsimile  of  the  original  Kilmarnock  Edition  limited  to  600 
copies,  being  the  extent  of  the  original  issue.  Board  covers.  8  Vo. 
John  Wilson 1 

The  Farce  of  Master  Pierre  Patelin,  by  an  unknown  author  living  about 
1469,  A.  D.  Englished  by  Richard  Holbrook.  Illustrated  with  fac- 
similes of  the  woodcuts  in  the  Edition  of  Pierre  Levet,  ca.  1489.  Board 
covers.     Crown  8  Vo.     Houghton  Mifflin  Company 1 

The  Divine  Comedy  of  Dante  Alighieri.    Translated  by  Henry  Wadsworth 

Longfellow.     Cloth.     16  Mo.     James  R.  Osgood  and  Company,  1873. . .       3 

The  Jerusalem  Delivered.  By  Torquato  Tasso.  Translated  into  English- 
Spenserian  verse,  with  a  life  of  the  author  by  J.  H.  Wiffen.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.    Henry  G.  Bohn 1 

i 

The  Orlando  Furioso.  Translated  into  English  verse,  from  the  Italian  of 
Ludovico  Ariosto,  with  notes  by  William  Roscoe  Rose.  Illustrated  with 
engravings  on  steel.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    Henry  G.  Bohn 2 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Robert  Burns,  with  a  Memoir,    y  Morocco.    16  Mo. 

Thomas   R.   Knox 2 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Percy  Bysshe  Shelley.    Edited  by  Mrs.  Shelley,  with 

a  Memoir.     yA  Morocco.     12  Mo.     Houghton  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1883 2 

The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Keats,  with  a  Memoir  by  James  Russell  Lowell. 

Illustrations.    Full  Morocco.    16  Mo.    James  Miller,  1873 1 

107 


No. 

The  Nibelungenlied.  Translated  by  William  Nanson  Lettsom.  Second 
Edition.  Cloth  with  decorations  on  front  cover.  12  Mo.  Williams 
and   Norgate,    1874 1 

The  Pocket  Book  of  Poems  and  Songs  for  the  Open  Air.  Compiled  by 
Edward  Thomas.  Cloth,  front  cover  and  back  decorated.  16  Mo. 
E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  1907 1 

Flowers  from  Robert  Browning.  Cloth,  with  front  cover,  and  all  of  the 
pages  decorated  with  flowers  in  colours.  18  Mo.  De  Wolfe  &  Fiske 
Co.,  1906 1 

Franz  von  Sickingen,  A  Tragedy  in  Five  Acts.  Translated  from  the  Ger- 
man of  Ferdinand  Lasalle  by  Daniel  De  Leon.  Cloth,  front  cover 
decorated.     12  Mo.    New  York  Labor  News  Company,  New  York ....       1 

Rubaiyat  of  Omar  Khayyam,  the  Astronomer-Poet  of  Persia.  Rendered 
into  English  verse  by  Edward  Fitzgerald.  9th  Edition.  Cloth.  16  Mo. 
Houghton  Mifflin  &  Co 1 

The  Wine-Press,  a  Tale  of  War,  by  Alfred  Noyes.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Fred- 
erick A.   Stokes 1 

The  Man  with  the  Hoe,  and  Other  Poems.     By  Edwin  Markham.     Cloth. 

12   Mo 1 

The  Incas,  The  Children  of  the  Sun.  By  Telford  Groesbeck,  with  preface 
by  Clements  R.  Markham.  Illustrations  by  Eric  Pape,  engraved  on 
wood  by  M.  Haider.  Cloth,  covers  and  back  gold  decorated.  8  Vo. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1896 1 

CEuvres  Completes  de  Alfred  de  Musset.  Edition  ornee  de  28  gravures 
d'apres  les  dessins  de  M.  Bida,  d'un  portrait  gravee  par  M.  Flameng 
d'apres  l'original  de  M.  Laudelle,  et  accompagnee  d'une  notice  sur  Alfred 
de  Musset  par  son  frere.  }£  Morocco.  Regular  8  Vo.  Charpentier, 
1881    10 

CEuvres  Completes  de  P.  J.  de  Beranger,  Nouvelle  Edition  revue  par 
l'auteur.  Illustree  de  cinquante-deux  belles  gravures  sur  acier,  entiere- 
ment  inedites  d'apres  les  dessins  de  MM.  Charlet,  A.  de  Lemud, 
Johannot,  Daubigny,  Pauquet,  Jaques,  J.  Lange,  Pinquelly,  de  Rudder, 
Raffet.     l/2   Morocco.    8  Vo.     Perrotin,   1847 2 

108 


No. 
The  Complete  Poetical  Works  of  Robert  Southey,  collected  by  himself.     A 

new  edition,  including  "Oliver  Newman,"  and  other  poems.    Illustrated 

with  eight  fine  steel  engravings   from  drawings  by  Kenny  Meadows, 

Corbould,   Westall   and   Middleton.     Full   Morocco,   covers   and   back 

decorated.     8  Vo.     D.  Appleton  &  Company,  1847 1 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Thomas  Moore.  Illustrated  with  engravings  from 
drawings  by  eminent  artists.  Full  Morocco,  covers  and  back  decorated. 
8  Vo.     D.  Appleton  &  Company,  1867 1 

Dorothy  Q,  together  with  a  Ballad  of  the  Boston  Tea  Party  and  Grand- 
mother's Story  of  Bunker  Hill  Battle.  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  with 
illustrations  by  Howard  Pyle.  Cloth,  covers  and  back  decorated.  12  Mo. 
No.  233  of  an  edition  limited  to  250  copies.  Houghton,  Miffiin  &  Com- 
pany,   1893 1 

The  Seven  Great  Hymns  of  the  Mediaeval  Church.  Annotated  by  Charles  C. 
Nott.  Revised  and  enlarged  edition.  Board  covers  decorated.  12  Mo. 
Edwin  S.  Gorham,  1902 1 

Everyman,  A  Moral  Play.     Illustrations.     Board  covers  decorated.     12  Mo. 

Duffield    Company,    1904 1 

A   Few   Verses   and   Songs.     By  Walter   Gilliss.     Board   covers.     12   Mo. 

Edition  on  Japan  paper  limited  to  250  copies.    Privately  printed  1916. .       1 

Giuvres  Completes  de  Moliere.     %  Morocco.     16  Mo.     Charpentier,  Paris, 

1869    , 3 

The  Poetical  Works  of  William  Wordsworth.  Edited  with  Memoir  by 
Edward  Dowden.  Board  covers.  12  Mo.  No.  23  of  an  edition  limited 
to  150  copies,  of  which  25  are  for  America.    George  Bell  &  Sons,  1892. .       7 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Sir  Walter  Scott.     Edited  with  Memoir  by  John 

Dennis.     }i  Morocco.     George  Bell  &  Sons,  1892.     16  Mo 5 

The  Fables  of  La  Fontaine.  Translated  into  English  Verse  by  Walter 
Thornbury.  Three  hundred  illustrations  by  Gustave  Dore  and  one 
hundred  etchings  by  famous  French  etchers.  Full  Morocco.  Quarto. 
Cassell    &    Company 2 

The  Aldus  Shakespeare,  with  various  copious  notes  and  comments  by  Henry 
Norman  Hudson,  Isabel  Gollancz,  C.  H.  Herford,  and  over  one  hundred 
other  Shakespearean  authorities.     Cloth.     16  Mo.     Bigelow  Smith  &  Co.     39 

109 


No. 

The  Poems  of  James  Russell  Lowell.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Houghton,  Mifflin 

&   Co.,    1896 4 

The  Fairie  Queene,  by  Edmund  Spenser.  Illustrated  by  Edward  Corbould. 
Cloth.  Covers  and  back  decorated.  16  Mo.  Lee,  Shepard  and  Com- 
pany,   1874 1 

The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Dryden.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  D.  Appleton  &  Com- 
pany,   1868 1 

The  Canterbury  Tales,  by  Geoffrey  Chaucer.  Cloth.  D.  Appleton  &  Com- 
pany,  1869.     16  Mo 1 

Poems  and  Ballads.     By  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.     ^4  Morocco.     12  Mo. 

Charles   Scribner's   Sons,    1901 1 

Faust,  A  Tragedy.     By    Johann    Wolfgang    von    Goethe.     Translated  by 

Bayard  Taylor.    Cloth.    16  Mo.    James  R.  Osgood  &  Company.  1875. .       2 

The  Seven  Seas.    By  Rudyard  Kipling.    ^4  Morocco.    12  Mo.    D.  Appleton 

&  Company,    1898 1 

The  Defence  of  Guenevere,  and  Other  Poems,  by  William  Morris.      Cloth. 

12  Mo.     Ellis  &  White,   1875 1 

The  Works  of  Jonathan  Swift.  With  Notes  and  a  Life  of  the  Author  by  Sir 
Walter  Scott.  Second  Edition.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1883 19 

The  Cathedral.     By  James  Russell  Lowell.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Fields,  Osgood 

&   Co.,    1870 1 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Thomas  Campbell.  Edited  with  a  Critical  Memoir, 
by  William  Michael  Rossetti.  Illustrated  by  Thomas  Seccombe.  y2 
Morocco.    E.  Moxon,  Son  &  Co.,  16  Mo 1 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Samuel  T.  Coleridge.  Edited  with  a  Critical  Memoir 
by  William  Michael  Rossetti.  Illustrated  by  Thomas  Seccombe.  £4 
Morocco.     12  Mo.    E.  Moxon  &  Son,  London 1 

The  Poems  of  Heine,  Complete.  Translated  in  the  original  metres,  with  a 
sketch  of  his  life,  by  Edgar  Alfred  Browning.  24  Morocco.  16  Mo. 
George  Bell  and  Sons,  1889 1 

Poems  and  Essays  of  Edgar  Allan  Poe.     Memorial  Edition.     Cloth.     12  Mo. 

W.   J.    Middleton.     1876 1 

110 


No. 
Schiller  and  Horace.    Translated  by  Lord  Lytton.    The  Knebworth  Edition. 

Cloth.     12  Mo.     George  Routledge  and  Sons.     1875 1 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning.  Illustrated  by  Sol. 
Eytinge,  Jr.,  W.  J.  Hennessy,  W.  Thwaites  and  C.  G.  Bush.  Full 
Morocco,  covers  and  back  decorated.     16  Mo.     James  Miller.     1875 ...       1 

Pippa  Passes.  By  Robert  Browning.  Illustrated  by  Margaret  Armstrong. 
Cloth.  Front  cover  and  back  decorated  with  gold.  Crown  8  Vo. 
Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.     1900 1 

Sordello,  Strafford,  Christmas  Eve  and  Easter  Day.     By  Robert  Browning. 

Cloth.     16   Mo.     Ticknor   and   Fields.     1864 1 

Balaustion's  Adventure,  including  Transcript  from  Euripides.  By  Robert 
Browning.     Cloth.     16  Mo.     James  R.  Osgood  and  Co.     1871 1 

Fifine  at  the  Fair  and  Other  Poems.  By  Robert  Browning.  Cloth.  16  Mo. 
James  R.  Osgood  &  Company.     1872 1 

The  Ring  and  the  Book.  By  Robert  Browning.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  Hough- 
ton, Osgood  &  Company.     1879 2 

Men  and  Women.  By  Robert  Browning.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  Houghton, 
Osgood  &  Company.     1879 1 

The  Pillars  of  Society  and  Other  Plays.  By  Henrik  Ibsen.  Edited  with  an 
Introduction,  by  Havelock  Ellis.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  Walter  Scott,  Lon- 
don         1 

The  Doll's  House,  a  Play,  by  Henrik  Ibsen.  Translated  by  Henrietta  Frances 
Lord.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     D.  Appleton  &  Co.     1889 1 

The  Lady  from  the  Sea.  By  Henrik  Ibsen.  Translated  by  Eleanor  Marx- 
Aveling,  with  a  critical  introduction  by  Edmund  Gosse.  Board  covers. 
12  Mo.     T.  Fisher  Unwin,  London.     1890 1 

Brand.  By  Henrik  Ibsen.  Translated  by  F.  E.  Garrett,  with  an  introduc- 
tion by  Philip  A.  Wicksteed.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  J.  M.  Dent  &  Sons. 
London  1 

Hedda  Gabler.     By  Henrik  Ibsen.     Translated  by  Edmund  Gosse.     Cloth. 

12  Mo.     John  W.  Lovell  Company 1 

111 


No 

Lady  Inger  of  Ostrat,  The  Feast  at  Solhoug,  and  Love's  Comedy.  By  Henrik 
Ibsen.  With  an  introduction  by  William  Archer  and  C.  H.  Herford. 
Cloth.     12  Mo.     William  Heinemann,  London,  1910 

The  Weavers,  a  Drama  of  the  Forties,  by  Gerhardt  Hauptmann.  Translated 
by  Mary  Morison.    Cloth.    16  Mo.    William  Heinemann,  London,  1899 

The  Sunken  Bell,  a  Fairy  Tale  in  Five  Acts.  By  Gerhardt  Hauptmann. 
Freely  rendered  into  English  by  Charles  Henry  Meltzer.  Cloth.  Crown 
8  Vo.     Doubleday  &  McClure  Co.     1899. 

The  Poems  of  William  Watson.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    Macmillan  and  Co.    1893 

Odes  and  Other  Poems.  By  William  Watson.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Macmillan 
and  Co.    1894. 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Robert  Bridges,  excluding  the  Eight  Dramas.  Full 
Morocco.    16  Mo.    Henry  Frowde,  London.    1912 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
James  R.  Osgood  and  Company.     1877 

Parnassus.  Edited  by  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company 

Love  Triumphant.  By  Frederic  Laurence  Knowles.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Dana 
Estes  &  Company 

Lays  of  Ancient  Rome,  together  with  Ivry,  The  Armada,  A  Radical  War 
Song,  The  Battle  of  Moncontour,  Songs  of  the  Civil  War.  By  Lord 
Macaulay.  Illustrated  by  George  Scharf,  Jun.  Full  Morocco.  Front 
cover  and  back  decorated.     18  Mo.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Thomas  Hood,  with  a  Memoir  of  the  Author.  Cloth. 
18  Mo.    James  Miller 

Queen  Mary,  a  Drama.  By  Alfred  Tennyson.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  James  R. 
Osgood  and  Company.     1875 

Laus  Veneris  and  Other  Poems  and  Ballads.  By  Algernon  Charles  Swin- 
burne.   Cloth.    16  Mo.    S.  Low,  Son  &  Co.    London,  1877 

The  Mirror  of  a  Mind.  By  Algernon  Sydney  Logan.  Cloth.  16  Mo. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    1875 

112 


No. 

Frithjof's  Saga.  By  Esaias  Tegner.  Translated  by  Rev.  William  Lewery 
Blackley.  First  American  Edition.  Edited  by  Bayard  Taylor.  Cloth. 
16  Mo.    Leypoldt,  Holt  &  Williams,  1871 1 

The  Book  of  Latter-Day  Ballads   (1858-1888).     Selected  and  arranged  by 

Henry  F.  Randolph.    Cloth.     16  Mo.    Anson  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co. . . .       1 

The  Poems  and  Ballads  of  Schiller.     Translated  by  Sir  Edward  Bulwer- 

Lytton.    Cloth.    Front  cover  decorated.    16  Mo.    Clark  &  Maynard ... .        1 

A  Voyage  to  the  Fortunate  Isles.    By  Mrs.  S-  M.  B.  Piatt.    Cloth.     16  Mo. 

James  R.  Osgood  &  Company,  1874 1 

Ingoldsby  Legends.    Cloth.     16  Mo.    Richard  Bentley.     London.     1869 1 

Fair  Shadow-Land.     By  Edith  M.  Thomas.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Houghton 

Mifflin  &  Company,  1893 1 

Lucille.     By  Owen  Meredith.     With  illustrations.     Cloth.     16  Mo.     James 

R.  Osgood  &  Company,  1873 1 

i 

The  Light  of  Asia,  or  The  Great  Renunciation,  being  the  Life  and  Teaching 
of  Gautama,  Prince  of  India  and  Founder  of  Buddhism  (as  told  in  verse 
by  an  Indian  Buddhist).  By  Edwin  Arnold.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Roberts 
Brothers.    1879 1 

Lays  of  the  Scottish  Cavaliers  and  Other  Poems.     By  William  Edmondstoune 

Aytoun.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    William  Blackwood  and  Sons.    1874 1 

Alfred  Lord  Tennyson.     A  Memoir  by  His  Son.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     The  Mac- 

millan  Company,  1899 10 

The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Milton.     By  Henry  John  Todd.     Full  calf. 

Crown  8  Vo.     Published  1852  with  the  imprint  of  16  Publishers 4 

The  Tales  and  Poems  of  Edgar  Allan  Poe,  with  Biographical  Essay  by  John 
H.  Ingram,  and  twenty  original  etchings,  five  photogravures  and  a  new 
etched  portrait.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    George  H.  Richmond  &  Co..  . .       7 


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GREEK  LITERATURE 

AND 

Books  Relating  to  Greek  Subjects 


No. 

The  Odyssey  of  Homer.     Translated  into  English  blank  verse  by  William 

Cullen  Bryant.    Cloth.    16  Mo.    James  R.  Osgood  &  Co.,  1873 2 

The  Works  of  George  Chapman.  Poems  and  Minor  Translations.  With  an 
introduction  by  Algernon  Charles  Swinburne.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Chatto 
&  Windus,  1875 1 

The  Iliad  of  Homer.    Translated  into  English  blank  verse  by  William  Cullen 

Bryant.    Cloth.    16  Mo.    James  R.  Osgood  &  Co.    1877 2 

The  Odyssey  of  Homer.  Done  into  English  prose  by  S.  H.  Butcher  and 
A.  Lang.     Cloth.     16  Mo.     Macmillan  &  Co.,  1881 

Homer:  An  Introduction  to  the  Iliad  and  the  Odyssey.  By  R.  C.  Jebb. 
Cloth.    12  Mo.    James  Maclehose  &  Sons,  1888 

The  Odyssey  of  Homer,  with  the  Hymns,  Epigrams  and  Battle  of  the  Frogs 
and  Mice.  Literally  translated,  with  explanatory  notes,  by  Theodore 
Alois  Buckley.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    George  Bell  and  Sons,  1891 

The  Iliad  of  Homer.  Done  into  English  prose  by  Andrew  Lang  and  Walter 
Leaf  and  Ernest  Myers.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    Macmillan  &  Co.,  1903 

The  Iliad  of  Homer.  Translated  by  Alexander  Pope.  Edited  by  the  Rev. 
J.  S.  Watson.  Illustrated  with  the  entire  series  of  Flaxman's  designs. 
Cloth.    12  Mo.    George  Bell  &  Sons,  1899 

The  Homeric  Hymns.  A  new  prose  translation  and  essays,  literary  and 
mythological,  by  Andrew  Lang.  With  illustrations.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1899 

The  Life  and  Death  of  Jason.  A  Poem  by  William  Morris.  Author's 
Edition.     Cloth.     16  Mo.     Roberts  Brothers,  1871 

Atalanta  in  Calydon.  A  Tragedy  by  Algernon  Charles  Swinburne.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.    Chatto  &  Windus,  1911 

Sappho  and  the  Island  of  Lesbos.  By  Mary  Mills  Patrick,  with  twenty-six 
illustrations.    Cloth.    16  Mo 

Hesiod.  The  Poems  and  Fragments  done  into  English  prose,  with  intro- 
duction and  appendices,  by  A.  W.  Mair.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  Clarendon 
Press,    1908 

117 


The  Works  of  Hesiod,  Callimachus  and  Theognis.  A  literal  prose  transla- 
tion with  notes,  by  the  Rev.  J.  Banks.  To  which  are  added  the  metrical 
translations  of  Elton,  Tytler  and  Frere.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  George  Bell 
and  Sons,  1909 

The  Poetical  Works  of  Reginald  Heber,  containing  his  translations  of  the 
following  Odes  by  Pindar: 

I.  The  first  Olympic  Ode. 
II.  To  Theron  of  Agragas,  victor  in  the  Chariot  race. 

III.  To  the  same. 

IV.  To  Psaumis  of  Camarina. 
V.  To  the  same. 

VI.  To  Agesias  of  Syracuse. 
Cloth.     12  Mo.    Frederick  Warne  &  Co 

The  Extant  Odes  of  Pindar,  translated  into  English  with  an  introduction 
and  short  notes,  by  Ernest  Myers.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Macmillan  & 
Co.,  1874 

The  Odes  of  Pindar,  literally  translated  into  English  prose  by  Dawson  W. 

'  Turner,  to  which  is  adjoined  a  metrical  version  by  Abraham  Moore. 

Cloth.    12  Mo.    George  Bell  &  Sons,  1909 

The  Tragedies  of  Aeschylus.  A  new  translation  with  a  biographical  essay, 
and  an  appendix  of  rhymed  choral  odes.  By  E.  H.  Plumptre.  Cloth. 
16  Mo.    Strahan  &  Co.,  1873 

The  Agamemnon  of  Aeschylus,  La  Saisiaz,  Dramatic  Idyls,  Jocoseria.  By 
Robert  Browning.  Introduction  and  notes  by  Charlotte  Porter  and 
Helen  A.  Clarke.    Cloth.    16  Mo.    Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co 

The  Agamemnon  of  Aeschylus,  translated  by  Prof.  W.  W.  Goodwin,  for  use 
at  the  presentation  of  the  play  in  June,  1906.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Published 
1906  by  Harvard  University 

The  Tragedies  of  Aeschylus,  literally  translated  by  Theodore  Alois  Buckley. 
Cloth.    12  Mo.    George  Bell  &  Sons,  1906 

The  Tragedies  of  Sophocles.  A  new  translation,  with  a  biographical  essay, 
and  an  appendix  of  rhymed  choral  odes  and  lyrical  dialogues.  By 
E.  H.  Plumptre.    Cloth.    16  Mo.    Strahan  &  Co.,  1871 

Sophocles.  Translated  and  explained  by  John  Swinnerton  Phillimore.  With 
illustrations.    Cloth.     12  Mo.    Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1912 

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No. 


No. 

Sophocles,  with  an  English  translation  by  F.  Storr.    Vol.  I  contains : 
Oedipus  the  King 
Oedipus  at  Colonus 
Antigone 
Full  Morocco.    16  Mo.    William  Heinemann,  1912 1 

The  Tragedies  of  Sophocles,  translated  into  English  prose  by  Sir  Richard 

C.  Jebb.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     University  Press,  Cambridge,   1904 1 

Euripides  and  His  Age.    By  Gilbert  Murray.    Cloth.     16  Mo.    Williams  & 

Norgate 1 

The  Plays  of  Euripides  in  English  rhyming  verse,  translated  by  Gilbert 
Murray.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Published  by  Oxford  University  Press : 

Medea  1910 1 

Iphigenia  in  Tauris  1910 1 

Oedipus  King  of  Thebes  1911 1 

Rhesus  -  1913 1 

Alcestis  1915 1 

Published  by  George  Allen  &  Sons : 

Bacchae  1910 1 

Trojan  Women  1910 1 

Hippolytus  1911 1 

Electra  1911 1 

Andromache.     A  play  in  three  acts.     By  Gilbert  Murray.     Cloth.     12  Mo. 

George  Allen  &  Co.,  1914 1 

The  Tragedies  of  Euripides.  Literally  translated  or  revised,  with  critical 
and  explanatory  notes  by  Theodore  Alois  Buckley.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
Harper    Bros.,    1875 1 

The  Plays  of  Euripides.     Translated  into  English  prose  from  the  text  of 

Paley,  by  Edward  P.  Coleridge.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    G.  Bell  &  Sons,  1910      2 

The  Tragedies  of  Euripides.     In  English  verse  by  Arthur  S.  Way.     Vol.  I. 

Cloth.     12  Mo.     Macmillan  &  Co.,   1894 1 

Euripides,  with  an  English  translation  by  Arthur  S.  Way.     Vols.  I.  &  II. 

Full  Morocco.    16  Mo.    William  Heinemann 2 

119 


No. 

The  Comedies  of  Aristophanes.    Edited,  translated  and  explained  by  Benja- 
min Bickley  Rogers.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    George  Bell  &  Sons : 

Frogs  1*902 

Ecclesiazusae  1902 


Thesmophoriazusae  1904. 

Birds  1906. 

Plutus  1907. 

Knights  1910. 

Acharnians  1910. 

Lysistrata  1911. 

Peace  1913. 


The  Frogs  of  Aristophanes.     Translated   into  English   rhyming  verse   by 

Gilbert  Murray.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    George  Allen  &  Sons,  1908 1 

The  Works  of  John  Hookham  Frere.  In  verse  and  prose.  3  Vols.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.  A.  Denham  &  Co.,  1874.  Vol.  III.  contains  translations  from 
Aristophanes  and  Theognis 3 

Theocritus,  Bion  and  Moschus.    Translated  into  English  verse  by  Arthur  S. 

Way.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    Cambridge,  at  the  University  Press,  1913       1 

Theocritus,  Bion  and  Moschus.  Rendered  into  English  prose,  with  an  intro- 
ductory essay  by  A.  Lang.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    Macmillan  &  Co.,  1889       1 

The  Idylls  of  Theocritus,  Bion  and  Moschus,  and  the  War  Songs  of  Tyrtseus. 
Literally  translated  into  English  prose  by  Rev.  J.  Banks,  with  metrical 
versions  by  J.  M.  Chapman.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    George  Bell  &  Sons,  1878       1 

Lucretius  on  Life  and  Death,  in  the  metre  of  Omar  Khayyam,  to  which  are 
appended  parallel  passages  from  the  original.  By  W.  H.  Mallock.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.    John  Lane,  1900 1 

The  Works  of  Lucian  of  Samosata.  Complete  with  the  exceptions  specified 
in  the  preface.  Translated  by  H.  W.  Fowler  and  F.  G.  Fowler.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.    Oxford,  at  the  Clarendon  Press,  1905 4 

The  Dialogues  of  Plato.  Translated  into  English,  with  analysis  and  intro- 
duction by  B.  Jowett.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Scribner,  Armstrong  & 
Co.,  1876 4 

Thucydides,  translated  into  English,  with  introduction,  marginal  analysis, 
notes  and  indices  by  B.  Jowett.  Cloth.  Regular  8  Vo.  Oxford,  at  the 
Clarendon  Press,  1881 2 

120 


No. 

The  Orations  of  Demosthenes  on  the  Crown  and  on  the  Embassy.  Trans- 
lated with  notes  by  Charles  Rann  Kennedy  in  two  volumes.  Vol.  II. 
Cloth.     12  Mo.     Harper  Brothers,   1869 1 

Plutarch's  Lives.  The  translation  called  Dryden's.  Corrected  from  the 
Greek  and  revised.     Cloth.     Regular  8  Vo.     Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  1881       3 

Pausanias'  Description  of  Greece.  Translated  into  English,  with  notes  and 
index,  by  Arthur  Richard  Shilleto.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  George  Bell  & 
Sons,  1886 2 

Juventus  Mundi.    The  Gods  and  Men  of  the  Heroic  Age.    By  William  Ewart 

Gladstone.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  1869 1 

The  Poets  of  Greece.     By  Edwin  Arnold.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     Cassell, 

Petter  &  Galpin,  1869 1 

Socrates  and  Athenian  Society  in  His  Day.     A  Biographical  Sketch.     By  A. 

D.  Godley.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Macmillan  &  Co.,  1896 1 

Tales  of  Ancient  Greece.     By  Rev.  G.  W.  Cox.     Cloth.     16  Mo.     A.  C. 

McClurg,  1890 1 

Charicles,  or  Illustrations  of  the  Private  Life  of  the  Greeks,  with  notes  and 
excursus.  From  the  German  of  Professor  Becker.  Translated  by  the 
Rev.  Frederick  Metcalfe.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1895 . .       1 

The  Life  of  the  Greeks  and  Romans.  Described  from  Antique  Monuments 
by  E.  Guhl  and  W.  Koner.  Translated  from  the  third  German  Edition 
by  F.  Hueffer.  With  543  illustrations.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Chatto 
and  Windus 1 

An  Abridged  History  of  Greek  Literature,  by  Alfred  Croiset  and  Maurice 
Croiset.  Translated  by  George  F.  Heffelbower.  Cloth.  Regular  8  Vo. 
Macmillan  Co.,  1909 1 

Some  Aspects  of  the  Greek  Genius.     By  S.  H.  Butcher.     Cloth.     12  Mo. 

Macmillan  &  Co.,  1904 1 

Harvard  Lectures  on  Greek  Subjects.    By  S.  H.  Butcher.     Cloth.     12  Mo. 

Macmillan  &  Co.,  1904 1 

A  History  of  Ancient  Greek  Literature  by  Gilbert  Murray.     Cloth.     12  Mo. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  1912 1 

121 


No. 

Euripides  and  The  Spirit  of  His  Dramas.     By  Paul  Decharme.     Translated 

by  James  Loeb.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    MacMillan  &  Co 1 

Ilios.  The  City  and  Country  of  the  Trojans.  The  result  of  researches  and 
discoveries  on  the  site  of  Troy  and  throughout  the  Troad  in  the  years 
1871,  1872,  1873,  1878  and  1879,  including  an  autobiography  of  the 
Author.  By  ,Dr.  Henry  Schliemann,  with  a  preface,  appendices,  and 
notes  by  Professors  Rudolf  Virchow,  Max  Miiller,  A.  H.  Sayce,  J.  P. 
Mahaffy,  H.  Brugsch-Bey,  P.  Ascherson,  M.  A.  Postolaccas,  M.  E. 
Burnouf,  Mr.  F.  A.  Calvert  and  Mr.  A.  J.  Duffield.  With  maps,  plans 
and  about  1800  illustrations.  Cloth.  Regular  8  Vo.  Harper  Brothers, 
1881 1 

A  History  of  Greek  Literature.  By  Thomas  Sergeant  Perry.  Cloth.  Reg- 
ular 8  Vo.     Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  1890 1 

A  History  of  Ancient  Greek  Literature.     By  Harold  N.  Fowler.     Cloth. 

12  Mo.     D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  1902 1 


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LATIN  LITERATURE 


No. 

Comedies  of  Plautus,  translated  into  familiar  blank  verse,  by  Bonnell  Thorn- 
ton. Second  Edition  revised  and  corrected.  Tree-calf.  Crown  8  Vo. 
T.  Becket  and  P.  A.  De  Houdt.     London,  1769 5 

Terence,  with  an  English  translation  by  John  Sargeaunt.     Leather.     16  Mo. 

William  Heinemann,   1912 2 

Propertius.      English    translation    by    H.    E.    Butler.      Leather.      16    Mo. 

William  Heinemann,   1912 1 

The  Odes  of  Horace.      English  translation  by  W.  E.  Gladstone.      Cloth. 

12  Mo.     Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1894 1 

The   yEneid   of   Virgil.     English  translation   by   John    Conington.      Cloth. 

12  Mo.     A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son,  1883 1 

The  Works  of  Virgil.  Rendered  into  English  prose  with  an  introduction, 
running  analysis,  notes  and  an  index.  By  James  Lonsdale  and  Samuel 
Lee.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Macmillan  &  Co.,   1910 1 

Sabrinse  Corolla  in  Hortulis  Regise  Scholae.  Salopiensis  contexuerunt  tres 
viri  floribus  legendis.  Pages  1  to  270  contain  the  original  English, 
French  and  German  Poetry,  with  the  Latin  or  Greek  poetical  transla- 
tions. Pages  270  to  328  contain  the  Latin  or  Greek  poetical  translations, 
but  not  the  poems  in  their  original  language.  The  author  of  each  of  the 
original  poems  is  given,  with  the  title  of  the  poem.  Illustrated.  Cloth. 
Crown  8  Vo.     An  interesting  book.     London.     G.  Bell,  1850 1 


125 


Essays,  Autobiographies,  Biographies,  Memoirs,  Diaries, 

Legends,  Letters,  Books  on  Philosophy  and 

Kindred  Subjects 


No. 

The    Complete    Works    of    Ralph    Waldo    Emerson.      Riverside    Edition. 

YA  Morocco.     12  Mo.     Houghton    Mifflin  &  Co.,  1886 10 

A  Memoir  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  by  James  Eliot  Cabot.     Cloth.     12  Mo. 

Houghton  Mifflin  &  Company,  1890 2 

The  "Characters"  of  Jean  de  la  Bruyere,  newly  rendered  into  English  by 
Henry  Van  Laun,  with  an  introduction,  a  biographical  memoir  and 
notes.  Illustrated  with  twenty-four  etchings,  by  B.  Damman  and  V. 
Foulquier.  No.  188  of  an  edition  limited  to  500  copies,  200  of  which 
were  for  America.  A  fire  destroyed  almost  all  of  the  edition,  except 
those  that  came  to  America,  and  the  fire  also  destroyed  the  type. 
24  Levant.     Crown  8  Vo.     John  C.  Nimmo.     London,  1885 1 

The  Creevey  Papers,  a  selection  from  the  correspondence  and  diaries  of  the 
late  Thomas  Creevey,  born  1768 — died  1838.  Edited  by  Sir  Herbert 
Maxwell.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     E.  P.  Dutton  &  Company,  1903 2 

Diary  and  Correspondence  of  Samuel  Pepys,  from  his  M.  S.  cypher  in  the 
Pepysian  Library,  with  a  life  and  notes  by  Richard  Lord  Braybrooke. 
Deciphered  with  additional  notes,  by  Rev.  Mynors  Bright.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.     Dodd,  Mead  and  Company,  1885 10 

The  Memoirs  of  the  Duke  of  Saint-Simon,  on  the  Reign  of  Louis  XIV  and 
the  Regency.  Translated  from  the  French  by  Bayley  St.  John.  Cloth. 
Crown  8  Vo.     Swanse,  Sonnenshein  &  Co.,  1889 3 

Letters  Written  by  Lord  Chesterfield  to  His  Son.  Edited,  with  occasional 
elucidatory  notes,  translations,  and  a  biographical  notice  of  the  Author, 
by  Charles  Stokes  Carey.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  William  Tegg,  London, 
1872  2 

A  Lady  of  the  Old  Regime  (Elizabeth  Charlotte,  Duchesse  d'Orleans). 
Illustrated.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Front  cover  decorated.  Mac- 
millan  Company,  1909 1 

Walter  Savage  Landor.  A  Biography.  By  John  Forster.  Tree-calf. 
Edges  of  covers,  and  back,  decorated  in  gold.  Crown  8  Vo.  Chapman 
&  Hall,  1874 8 

Martin  Luther,  The  Man  and  His  Work,  by  Arthur  Cushman  McGiffert. 
Illustrated.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     The  Century  Co.,  1911 1 


No. 

Essays  of  Montaigne.  Translated  by  Charles  Cotton.  An  entirely  new 
edition  formed  from  a  collection  of  the  foreign  quotations,  a  fresh  ren- 
dering, and  a  careful  revision  of  the  text  throughout.  To  which  are 
added  some  accounts  of  the  life  of  Montaigne,  notes,  a  translation  of 
all  the  letters  known  to  be  extant,  and  an  enlarged  index.  Edited  by 
William  Carew  Hazlitt.  V$  Levant.  Crown  8  Vo.  Reeves  &  Turner, 
1902 4 

The  Story  of  Burnt  Njal,  or  Life  in  Iceland  at  the  End  of  the  Tenth  Century, 
from  the  Icelandic  of  the  Njals  Saga,  by  George  Webbe  Dasent,  with 
an  introduction,  maps  and  plans..  Cloth.  Front  cover  decorated  in 
gold.     Crown  8  Vo.     Edmonston  &  Douglas,  1861 2 

The  Life  of  Benvenuto  Cellini.     A  new  version  by  Robert  H.  Hobart  Cust. 

Illustrated.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     G.  Bell  &  Sons,  1910 2 

The  Complete  Angler,  or  The  Contemplative  Man's  Recreation,  of  Izaak 
Walton  and  Charles  Cotton.  Edited  by  John  Major,  with  six  original 
etchings,  two  portraits  and  seventy-four  wood  engravings.  To  which  is 
added  A  Treatise  on  Flies  and  Fly-Hooks,  with  ten  plates,  coloured  by 
hand,  representing  120  flies,  natural  and  artificial.  y$  Levant.  12  Mo. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1889 1 

The  Viking  Age.  The  Early  History,  Manners,  and  Customs  of  the  An- 
cestors of  the  English-speaking  Nations.  Illustrated  from  the  Antiqui- 
ties discovered  in  mounds,  cairns  and  bogs,  as  well  as  from  the  ancient 
Sagas  and  Eddas.  By  Paul  B.  Du  Chaillu.  1366  Illustrations  and 
Maps.  Cloth.  Front  Cover  and  back  gold  decorated.  Crown  8  Vo. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1889 2 

The  Many-Sided  Franklin.     By  Paul  Leicester  Ford.     Illustrated.     Cloth. 

Crown  8  Vo.     The  Century  Company,  1899 1 

Forty-one  Years  in  India,  from  Subaltern  to  Commander-in-Chief.  By  Field 
Marshal  Lord  Roberts  of  Kandahar,  with  portraits  and  maps.  Crown 
8  Vo.    Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1898 2 

The  Life  of  William  Ewart  Gladstone,  by  John  Morley.     Illustrated.     Cloth. 

Crown  8  Vo.     Macmillan  &  Co.,  1903 3 

Boswell's  Life  of  Johnson,  including  Boswell's  Journal  of  a  Tour  to  the 
Hebrides,  and  Johnson's  Diary  of  a  Journey  into  North  Wales.  Edited 
by  George  Birkbeck  Hill.  Cloth.  Regular  8  Vo.  Oxford,  at  the 
Clarendon  Press,  1887 6 

130 


No. 

A  Book  of  New  England  Legends  and  Folk  Lore  in  Prose  and  Poetry.  By 
Samuel  Adams  Drake.  Illustrated  by  F.  T.  Merrill.  ^  Morocco. 
Crown  8  Vo.     Roberts  Brothers,  1884 1 

Nooks  and  Corners  of  Old  New  York.  By  Charles  Hemstreet.  Illustrated 
by  E.  C.  Peixotto.  Cloth.  Front  cover  decorated.  Crown  8  Vo. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1899 1 

The  Cities  of  Spain.  By  Edward  Hutton.  With  24  illustrations  in  colour 
by  A.  Wallace  Remington,  and  20  other  illustrations.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
The  Macmillan  Company,  1906 1 

Letters  of  Chauncey  Wright,  with  Some  Account  of  His  Life.  By  James 
Bradley  Thayer.  Privately  printed.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Cambridge. 
Press  of  John  Wilson  &  Son,  1878 1 

Richard   Henry  Dana.     A   Biography  by   Charles   Francis  Adams.     Cloth. 

12  Mo.     Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Company,  1890 2 

The  Autobiography  of  Goethe.  Truth  and  Poetry  from  Life.  Translated 
into  English.  Edited  by  Parke  Godwin.  }4  Morocco.  16  Mo.  Wiley 
&  Putnam,  1846 2 

Court  Life  in  China.  The  Capital,  Its  Officials,  and  People.  By  Isaac  Tay- 
lor Headland.  Illustrated.  Cloth.  Front  cover  decorated.  Fleming 
H.  Revell  Company.     Second  Edition,  1909 1 

The  Works  of  Thomas  De  Quincey.     The  Riverside  Edition.     Y\  Levant. 

12  Mo.     Hurd  &  Houghton,  1878 12 

Charles  Reade,  as  I  Knew  Him.  By  John  Coleman.  Illustrated.  Cloth. 
Crown  8  Vo.     Treherne  &  Company,  1903 1 

The  Characters  of  Theophrastus.  A  Translation,  with  introduction  by 
Charles  E.  Bennett  and  William  A.  Hammond.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  Long- 
mans, Green  &  Co.,  1902 1' 

Friendship.  Two  Essays  on  Friendship,  by  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  and 
Marcus  Tullius  Cicero.  Leather.  Front  cover  and  back  decorated  in 
gold.     18  Mo.     A.  Wessels  Company,  1901 1 

The  Happy  Life.  By  Charles  W.  Eliot.  Cloth.  Front  cover  decorated  in 
gold.     12  Mo.     Thomas  Y.  Crowell  &  Co 1 

131 


No. 

The  Teaching  of  Epictetus;  being  the  "Encheiridion  of  Epictetus,"  with 
Selections  from  the  "Dissertations"  and  "Fragments."  Translated  from 
the  Greek,  with  an  Introduction  and  notes,  by  T.  W.  Rolleston.  Cloth. 
16  Mo.     Walter  Scott,  1888 1 

Seekers  After  God.  By  the  Rev.  F.  W.  Farrar,  Dean  of  Canterbury.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.     Macmillan  &  Co.,  1902 1 

The  Book  of  Tea.      By  Okakura-Kakuzo.      Cloth.      12  Mo.      Fox  Duffield 

Company,   1906 1 

Aucassin  and  Nicolette,  and  Other  Mediaeval  Romances  and  Legends. 
Translated  from  the  French  by  Eugene  Mason.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  J.  M. 
Dent  &  Sons 1 

The  Bastille,  by  the  Hon.  D.  Bingham,  with  a  preface  by  James  Breck 
Perkins.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Illustrated.  James  Pott  &  Company, 
1901   2 

Memoirs  of  Count  Grammont.  By  Count  A.  Hamilton.  Translated  from 
the  French,  with  notes  and  illustrations.  A  new  edition.  Full  Morocco. 
Covers  and  back  decorated  in  gold.  Regular  8  Vo.  Fine  Plates. 
W.  H.  Reed,  1828 2 

The  Chronicles  of  Froissart.  Translated  out  of  the  French  by  Sir  John 
Bourchier,  Lord  Berners,  Annis  1523-25.  With  an  introduction  by 
William  Paton  Ker.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     Davit  Nutt,  1901 4 

The  Memoirs  of  Madame  De  Remusat.  1802-1808.  With  a  preface  and 
notes  by  her  Grandson,  Paul  De  Remusat.  Translated  from  the  French 
by  Mrs.  Cashel  Hoey  and  John  Lillie.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  D.  Appleton  & 
Company,   1891 1 

The  Stones  of  Paris,  in  History  and  Letters.  By  Benjamin  Ellis  Martin 
and  Charlotte  M.  Martin.  Illustrated.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's  Sons,  1899 1 

Moliere,  a  Biography  by  H.  C.  Chatfield-Taylor.  With  an  introduction  by 
Thomas  Frederick  Crane.  Illustrations  by  J.  B.  Cloth.  Regular  8  Vo. 
Duffield  &  Company,  1906 1 

George  Sand.  Some  Aspects  of  Her  Life  and  Work  by  Rene  Doumic. 
Translated  by  Alys  Hallard.  With  Eighteen  Portraits  and  a  Facsimile. 
Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1910 1 

132 


No. 

The  French  Ideal,  Pascal,  Fenelon,  and  Other  Essays.    By  Madame  Duclaux. 

Illustrated.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  1911 1 

Ninon  De  L'Enclos  and  Her  Century.  By  M.  C.  Rowsell.  Illustrations. 
YA  Levant.     Regular  8  Vo.     Hurst  &  Blackett,  1910 1 

Madame  Recamier  and  Her  Friends.  From  the  French  of  Madame  Lenor- 
mant,  by  the  Translator  of  Madame  Recamier's  Memoirs.  Cloth. 
16  Mo.     Roberts  Brothers,  1875 1 

A  Belle  of  the  Fifties.  Memoirs  of  Mrs.  Clay,  of  Alabama,  covering  social 
and  political  life  in  Washington  and  the  South,  1853-66.  Gathered  and 
edited  by  Ada  Sterling.  Illustrated  from  Contemporary  portraits. 
Cloth.     Regular  8  Vo.     Doubleday,  Page  &  Company,  1904 1 

The  Life  of  Marie  Antoinette.  By  Maxine  De  La  Rocheterie.  Translated 
from  the  French  by  Cora  Hamilton  Bell.  Illustrated.  Cloth.  Front 
cover  decorated  in  gold.  Regular  8  Vo.  Dodd,  Mead  &  Company, 
1893   2 

Self-Culture :  Physical,  Intellectual,  Moral  and  Spiritual.  A  Course  of  Lec- 
tures by  James  Freeman  Clarke.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  James  R.  Osgood 
&  Company,    1880 1 

Lord  Chatham :  His  Early  Life  and  Connections  by  Lord  Rosebery.     Cloth. 

Regular  8  Vo.     Harper  &  Brother,  1910 1 

The  Discourses  of  Epictetus ;  with  the  Encheiridion  and  Fragments.  Trans- 
lated, with  notes,  a  Life  of  Epictetus,  and  a  view  of  his  philosophy,  by 
George  Long.  Full  calf.  Covers  and  back  decorated  with  gold. 
12  Mo.     George  Bell  &  Sons,  1887 1 

The  Thoughts  of  the  Emperor  M.  Aurelius  Antoninus.  Translated  by 
George  Long.  Revised  Edition.  Cloth.  Covers  and  back  decorated 
in  gold.     18  Mo.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 1 

Bacon's  Essays  and  Colours  of  Good  and  Evil,  with  notes  and  glossarial 
index.  By  W.  Aldis  Wright.  Leather.  18  Mo.  Macmillan  &  Co., 
1881    1 

A  Life  of  Walt  Whitman.  By  Henry  Bryan  Binns.  With  thirty-three  illus- 
trations.    Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  1905 1 

133 


No. 

The  Wisdom  of  Life,  being  the  first  part  of  Arthur  Schopenhauer's  Aphoris- 
men  zur  Lebensweise.  Translated  with  a  preface  by  T.  Bailey  Saun- 
ders.    Cloth.     12  Mo.     Swan  Sonnenshein  &  Co.,  1890 1 

The  Holland  House  Circle.  By  Lloyd  Saunders.  With  twenty-four  illus- 
trations.    Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1908 1 

Lafayette  in  Brooklyn.  By  Walt  Whitman.  With  an  introduction  by  John 
Burroughs.  Boards.  Crown  8  Vo.  No.  127  of  an  edition  limited  to 
250  copies.     George  D.  Smith,  1905 1 

Horace  Walpole  and  His  World.  Select  passages  from  his  letters.  Edited 
by  L.  B.  Seeley,  with  eight  illustrations  after  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  and 
Sir  Thomas  Lawrence.  Cloth.  Front  cover  decorated  in  gold.  12  Mo. 
Scribner  &  Welford 1 

The  Life  and  Letters  of  Peter  II j itch  Tschaikowsky.  By  Modeste  Tschai- 
kowsky.  Edited  from  the  Russian  with  an  introduction  by  Rosa  New- 
march.     Illustrated.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     John  Lane  Company 1 

Life,    Death    and    Immortality.      By    William    Hanna    Thomson.      Cloth. 

12  Mo.     Funk  &  Wagnalls,  1911 1 

The  Autobiography  of  Benjamin  Franklin.  With  an  introduction  by  Wood- 
row  Wilson.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     The  Century  Company,  1901 1 

The  Life  and  Teachings  of  Confucius.  Translated  into  English,  with  pre- 
liminary essays  and  explanatory  notes.  Reproduced  for  general  readers 
from  the  author's  work  containing  the  original  text.  By  James  Legge. 
Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     Triibner  &  Co.,  1875 1 

A  Collection  of  Letters  of  Thackeray.      1847-1855.      tf  Levant.      16  Mo. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1890 1 

A  Collection  of  Letters  of  Dickens,  1833-1870.    VA  Levant.    16  Mo.    Charles 

Scribner's   Sons,   1890 1 

Walpole.     By  John  Morley.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Macmillan  &  Co.,  1889 1 

The  Greek  Gospel.     An  interpretation  of  the  coming  faith.     By  Edward  P. 

Usher.     Published  by  the  Author,  1909 1 

The  Wisdom  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.  Collected  and  arranged  from  his 
writings.  Leather.  Front  cover  and  back  decorated  in  gold.  18  Mo. 
Brentanos,    1907 1 

134 


No 

England  and  the  English,  from  an  American  Point  of  View.  By  Price 
Collier.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1909 

Letters  to  Sanchia  upon  Things  As  They  Are.  Extracts  from  the  Corre- 
spondence of  Mr.  John  Maxwell  Lenhouse  by  Maurice  Hewlett.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.     Charles  Scribner's  Sons,   1910 

The  Greek  View  of  Life.  By  G.  Lowes  Dickinson.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
Methuen  &  Co.,   1909 

How  to  Live  on  24  Hours  a  Day.  With  a  preface.  By  Arnold  Bennett. 
Cloth.     12  Mo.     Frank  Palmer,  1910 

Literary  Taste.  How  to  form  it.  With  detailed  instructions  for  collecting 
a  complete  library  of  English  Literature.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Frank 
Palmer,  1910 

Talks  in  a  Library  with  Laurence  Hutton.  Recorded  by  Isabel  Moore. 
Illustrated.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1908 

Walden.  By  Henry  David  Thoreau.  With  an  introduction  by  Bradford 
Torrey.  Illustrated  with  photogravures.  Cloth.  Front  cover  and 
back  decorated  in  gold.    12  Mo.    Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Company,  1902. . 

Memories  of  Sixty  Years  at  Eton,  Cambridge  and  Elsewhere.  By  Oscar 
Browning.  With  a  photogravure  frontispiece  and  numerous  other  illus- 
trations.    Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     John  Lane  Company,  1910 

Letters  from  a  Chinese  Official,  being  an  eastern  view  of  western  civilization. 
Cloth.     16  Mo.     Doubleday,  Page  &  Company,  1909 

The  Durable  Satisfactions  of  Life.  By  Charles  W.  Eliot.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
Thomas  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  1910 

The  Private  Papers  of  Henry  Ryecroft.  By  George  Gissing.  Cloth.  16  Mo. 
E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  1907 

Memoirs  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte.  By  Louis  Antoine  Fauvelet  De  Bour- 
rienne,  his  private  secretary.  To  which  are  added  an  account  of  the 
important  events  of  the  Hundred  Days,  of  Napoleon's  surrender  to  the 
English,  and  of  his  residence  and  death  at  St.  Helena,  with  anecdotes 
and  illustrative  extracts  from  all  the  most  authentic  sources.  Edited 
by  R.  W.  Phipps.  New  and  revised  edition  with  numerous  illustra- 
tions.    Cloth.     12  Mo.     Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1891 4 

135 


No. 

Famous  Women  of  the  French  Court.  From  the  French  of  Imbert  De  Saint- 
Amend.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Charles  Scribner's  Sons 20 

Old  Court  Life  in  France.  By  Frances  Elliot.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  G.  P.  Put- 
nam's  Sons    2 

Voltaire.     By  John  Morley.     %  Levant.     12  Mo.     Macmillan  &  Co.,  1913. .       1 

The   Life   of  Voltaire,  by   S.   G.   Tallentyre.      With   illustrations.      Cloth. 

Crown  8  Vo.     Smith,  Elder  &  Co.,  1905 1 

The  Friends  of  Voltaire.     By  S.   G.   Tallentyre.     With  portraits.     Crown 

8  Vo.     Smith,  Elder  &  Co.,  1907 1 

Autobiography.      By  John  Stuart  Mill.      Cloth.      12  Mo.      Henry  Holt  & 

Company,  1873   1 

Henry  Hudson.  A  brief  statement  of  his  aims  and  his  achievements.  By 
Thomas  A.  Janvier.  To  which  is  added  a  newly  discovered  partial 
record  of  The  Trial  of  the  Mutineers  by  whom  he  and  others  were 
abandoned  to  their  death.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Harper  &  Brothers,  1909. .       1 

Machiavelli  and  the  Modern  State.  By  Louis  Dyer.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Ginn 
&  Co.,  1904 1 

The  Lives  of  the  Chief  Justices  of  England.     By  Lord  Campbell.     Cloth. 

Crown  8  Vo.     Estes  &  Lauriat,  1873 4 

The  Life  and  Times  of  Girolamo  Savonarola.  By  Pasquale  Villari.  Trans- 
lated by  Linda  Villari,  with  portraits  and  illustrations.  Y^  Levant. 
Crown  8  Vo.    T.  Fisher  Unwin,  MDCCCXXXIX 2 

Memoirs  of  Margaret  Fuller  Ossoli.  By  R.  W.  Emerson,  W.  H.  Channing 
and  J.  F.  Clarke.  With  a  portrait  and  an  appendix.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
Roberts   Brothers,    1875 2 

The  Greek  Gospel,  An  interpretation  of  the  Renaissance  in  Italy.     Italian 

Literature.     By  John  Addington  Symonds.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo 2 


136 


PAINTING,  SCULPTURE  AND  ARCHITECTURE 


No. 

The  Master-Painters,  with  photographic  reproduction  of  works  of  each 
painter,  bound  in  red  cloth,  royal  8  Vo.  published  by  Deutsche  Verlags 
Anstalt 24 

The  volumes  and  the  painters  are  as  follows;  each  volume  confined  to 
a  separate  painter: 

Name  of  Painter  Number  of  Photographs 

Correggio  196 

Donatello 277 

Durer 473 

Dou  247 

Fra  Angelico 327 

Feuerbach   200 

Holbein 252 

Liebermann    304 

Mantegna  200 

Memlin  197 

Michelangelo    169 

Murillo   287 

Rafael 275 

Rembrandt,  Vol.  1 643 

Rembrandt,  Vol.  II 408 

Rethel   300 

Rubens    551 

Schwind    1265 

Titian 284 

Thoma  874 

Uhde 285 

Van  Dyck 537 

Velasquez  172 

Watteau   182 

Photographic  Reproductions  of  Some  of  the  Masterpieces  of  Some  of  the 
Great  Painters  in  European  Galleries,  bound  in  cloth,  royal  8  Vo.  and 
published  by  Franz  Hanfstangel,  each  volume  confined  to  a  single 
Gallery 7 

The  Galleries  are  as  follows: 

Name  of  Gallery  Number  of  Photographs 

Rijks-Museum,  Amsterdam 208 

Kaiser  Friedrich-Museum,  Berlin 259 

Konigl.  Gemalde-Galerie,  Cassel 209 

Konigl.  Gemalde-Galerie,  Dresden 350 

Konigl.  Gemalde-Galerie,  Hague 125 

National  Gallery,  London 222 

L'Ermitage  Imperial  Galerie,  Petrograd 239 

139 


No. 


Masterpieces  in  Colour.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     T.  C.  &  E.  C.  Jack  and  Fred- 
erick A.  Stokes 57 


The  artists  are  as  follows: 


Fra  Angelico 

Bellini 

Rosa  Bonheur 

Botticelli 

Boucher 

Vigee-Lebrun 

Burne-Jones 

Chardin 

Puvis  de  Chavannes 

Constable 

Corot 

Carlo  Dolci 

Delacroix 

Diirer 

Fragonard 

Fromentin 

Gainsborough 

Gerome 

Goya 


Greuz 

Frans  Hals 

Henner 

Hogarth 

Holbein 

Holman  Hunt 

Ingres 

Bastien  Lepage 

Filippo  Lippi 

Lawrence 

Leighton 

Bernardino  Luini 

Mantegna 

Memling 

Meissonier 

Millais 

Millet 

Murillo 

Perugino 


Raeburn 

Raphael 

Rembrandt 

Reynolds 

Romney 

Rossetti 

Rubens 

Sargent 

Tintoretto 

Titian 

Turner 

Van  Dyck 

Van  Eyck 

Velasquez 

Veronese 

Leonardo  da  Vinci 

Whistler 

Watts 

Watteau 


The  Great  Masters  in  Painting  and  Sculpture.     Edited  by  G.  C.  Williamson. 

Cloth.     12  Mo.     With  illustrations.     George  Bell  &  Sons 27 

The  books  are  as  follows: 


Artist 

Botticelli 

Brunelleschi 

Correggio 

Crivelli 

Donatello 

Gerard  Dou 

Francia 

Piero  Delia  Francesca 

Gaudenzio  Ferrari 

Georgione 

Frans  Hals 

Bernardino  Luini 

Andrea  Mantegna 

Hans  Memling 

Perugino 

Pintoricchio 

Raphael 


A.  Streeter 

Leader  Scott 

Selwyn  Brinton 

G.  McNeil  Rushforth 

Hope  Rea 

W.  Martin 

George  C.  Williamson 

W.  G.  Waters 

Ethel  Halsey 

Herbert  Cook 

Gerald  S.  Davies 

George  C.  Williamson 

Maud  Gruttwell 

W.  H.  James  Weale 

George  C.  Williamson 

Evelyn  March  Phillipps 

Henry  Strachey 


140 


No. 
Artist  Writer 

Rembrandt  Malcolm  Bell 

Luca  Delia  Robbia  Marchesa  Burlamacchi 

Peter  Paul  Rubens  Hope  Rea 

Luca  Signorelli  Maud  Cruttwell 

Sodoma  Contessa  Priuli-Bon 

Tintoretto  J.  B.  Stoughton  Holborn 

Van  Dyck  Lionel  Cust 

Velasquez  R.  A.  M.  Stevenson 

Watteau  and  his  School  Edgecombe  Staley 

Sir  David  Wilkie  Lord  Ronald  Sutherland-Gower 

Leonardo  Da  Vinci,  Das  Abendmahl,  mit  einer  Einleitung  von  Goethe. 
Herausgegeben  von  Emil  Schaeffer.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  With  illustra- 
tions.    Im  Verlag  von  Julius  Bard,  Berlin,  1914 1 

Francisco   De   Goya.     By  Richard   Muther.     Leather.    16   Mo.   A.   Siegle, 

London.  1905 1 

Francisco  Goya,  von  Dr.  Kurt  Bertels.     26  illustrations.     Cloth.     Royal  8  Vo. 

R.  Piper  &  Co.   Munich  &  Leipzig,  1907 1 

El  Greco.     By  August  I.  Mayer.     50  illustrations.     Boards.     Crown  8  Vo. 

Delphin  Verlag.     Miinchen,  1911 1 

Hogarth's  Works,  with  Life  and  Anecdotal  Descriptions  of  His  Pictures. 
Illustrated.  The  whole  of  the  plates  reduced  in  exact  fac-simile  of  the 
original.  By  John  Ireland  and  John  Nichols.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Chatto 
and  Windus 3 

The  History  of  Paintings  from  the  Fourth  to  the  Early  Nineteenth  Century. 
By  Richard  Muther.  Translated  from  the  German  and  edited  with  anno- 
tations by  George  Kriehn.  Illustrated.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons,  1907 3 

Le  Greco.  Essai  sur  sa  vie  et  sur  son  ceuvre  sui  d'un  catalogue  et  d'une 
bibliographie  illustre  de  nombreuses  reproductions.  Par  Paul  Laford, 
Conservateur  du  Musee  de  Pau.  Paper.  Royal  8  Vo.  E.  Sansot  et  Cie. 
Paris 1 

141 


No. 

El  Greco.  Coloured  reproductions  of  seven  paintings  by  Greco.  Loose  in  a 
portfolio  with  six  printed  pages.    Verlag  von  E.  U.  Seemann.     Leipzig. 

These  coloured  reproductions  are  as  follows : 

1.  Die  Ausgiebung  des  HI.  Geistes.     Madrid.     Size  10^  x  A1/*  in. 

2.  Kardinal-Inquisitor  Nino  de  Guevara.    Budapest.    Sammlung  Nemes. 

Size  10  x  6l/t  in. 

3.  Heilige  Familie.    Budapest.    Sammlung  Nemes.    Size  9l/i  x  Sy2  in. 

4.  Austreibung  der  Wechsler  aus  dem  Tempel.     London.     The  National 

Gallery.    Size  7x8^  in. 

5.  Christus  am  Oelberg.  Budapest.  Sammlung  Nemes.  Size  10  x  8>4  in- 

6.  Entkleidung  Christi.     Miinchen,  Alte  Pinakothek.     Size  10>2  x  6  in. 

7.  Himmelfahrt  Christi.     Madrid,  Prado.     Size  11  x  6j4  in 1 

Romney.    By   Randall   Davies.     16  Examples   in   Colour.    Cloth.    Quarto. 

Adam  and  Charles  Black,  1914 1 

Reynolds.     By  Randall  Davies.     16  Examples  in  Colour.     Cloth.     Quarto. 

Adam  and  Charles  Black,  1913 1 

Velasquez.  By  Randall  Davies.  16  Examples  in  Colour.  Cloth.  Quarto. 
Adam  and  Charles  Black,  1914 1 

Der  Stille  Garten.  Deutsche  Maler  der  I.  Halfte  des  19.  Jahrhunderts.  100 
examples.  Arbeit,  Brot  und  Friede.  Paper.  Regular  8  Vo.  Karl 
Robert  Langewische.     Verlag  Taunus  &  Leipzig 1 

Danische  Maler,  von  Juelbis  zur  Gegenwart.  With  over  130  examples. 
Paper.  Regular  8  Vo.  Karl  Robert  Langewische.  Verlag  Dusseldorf 
&  Leipzig 1 

Griechische  Bildwerke.  Max  Sauerlandt.  Mit  140,  darunter  etwa  50 
ganzseitigen  Abbildungen.  Paper.  Regular  8  Vo.  Karl  Robert 
Langewische.    Verlag  Dusseldorf  &  Leipzig 1 

Moderne  Plastik.  Einige  Deutsche  und  Auslandische  Bildhauer  und  Medail- 
leure  Unserer  Zeit.  Wilhelm  Radenberg.  With  about  150  examples. 
Paper.  Regular  8  Vo.  Karl  Robert  Langewische.  Verlag  Diissel- 
dorf  &  Leipzig 1 

Miniatures.  By  Dudley  Heath.  With  numerous  examples.  Cloth.  Reg- 
ular 8  Vo.     Methuen  &  Co 1 

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La  Miniature  sur  Ivoire.  Essai  Historique  et  Traite  Pratique.  By  G.  Debille- 
mont-Chardon.  Preface  de  M.  Leonce  Benedite.  Ouvrage  illustre  de 
16  planches  hors  texte  en  phototype.  Paper.  Regular  8  Vo.  Paris, 
Librairie  Renouard.     H.  Laurens,  Editeur 

Masterpieces  of  Sculpture.  120  examples  selected  by  Dr.  Georg  Gronau. 
Vol.  I.  From  the  earliest  time  to  Michelangelo.  Cloth.  16  Mo. 
Frederick  A.   Stokes  Company 

George  Romney.  By  Rowley  Cleeve.  Leather.  16  Mo.  George  Bell  & 
Sons,  1901    

Michelangelo.  By  Edward  C.  Strutt.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  George  Bell  & 
Sons,  1901   

Masterpieces  of  Etchings.  100  examples  selected  by  Laurence  Binyon. 
Cloth.     16  Mo.     Frederick  A.  Stokes 

The  French  Impressionist.  By  Camille  Mauclair.  Leather.  16  Mo.  Duck- 
worth &  Co 

Old  Masters  and  New.  Essays  in  Art  Criticism.  By  Kenyon  Cox.  Nu- 
merous Examples.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Fox,  Duffield  &  Company, 
1905  

Painters  and  Sculptors.  A  second  series  of  Old  Masters  and  New.  By  Ken- 
yon Cox.  Numerous  examples.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Duffield  & 
Company,   1907    

The  Appreciation  of  Pictures.  A  Handbook.  By  Russell  Sturgis.  Nu- 
merous examples.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  The  Baker  &  Taylor  Com- 
pany   

Thoughts  on  Art  and  Life.  By  Leonardo  Da  Vinci.  Translated  by  Maurice 
Baring.    Cloth.    Regular  8  Vo.    Boston.    The  Merrymount  Press,  1906 

The  Venetian  Painters  of  the  Renaissance,  with  an  index  to  their  works. 
By  Bernhard  Berenson.  24  photogravure  illustrations.  Cloth.  Regu- 
lar 8  Vo.    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1897 

Landscape  Painting  and  Modern  Dutch  Artists.  By  E.  B.  Greenshields. 
Illustrated.    Cloth.    Regular  8  Vo.    The  Baker  &  Taylor  Company 

Art  for  Art's  Sake.  Seven  university  lectures  on  the  technical  beauties  of 
painting.  By  John  C.  Van  Dyke.  Illustrations.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons,  1905 

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No. 


No. 

Aims  and  Ideals  in  Art.  Eight  lectures  delivered  to  the  Students  of  the 
Royal  Academy.  By  George  Clausen.  34  illustrations.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  1906 

The  Meaning  of  Pictures.  Six  lectures  given  for  Columbia  University  at 
the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art.  By  John  C.  Van  Dyke.  With  illus- 
trations.    Cloth.     12  Mo.     Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1905 

Six  Lectures  on  Painting.  Delivered  to  the  students  of  the  Royal  Academy 
of  Arts  in  London,  January,  1904.  By  George  Clausen.  19  illustrations. 
Cloth.    12  Mo.    E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co,  1906 

French  Art.  Classic  and  Contemporary  Painting  and  Sculpture.  By  W.  C. 
Brownell.  48  illustrations.  Cloth.  Royal  8  Vo.  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons,  1901 

How  to  Identify  Portrait  Miniatures.  By  George  C.  Williamson.  With 
chapters  on  how  to  paint  Miniatures  by  Alyn  Williams.  Illustrated. 
Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    George  Bell  and  Sons,  1909 

How  to  Judge  of  a  Picture.  Familiar  talks  in  the  Gallery  with  uncritical 
lovers  of  Art.     By  John  C.  Van  Dyke.     Eaton  &  Maens 

The  Art  Gallery  of  the  Exhibition  in  Philadelphia,  1876,  with  16  steel  engrav- 
ings, India  proof  and  52  drawings  on  wood.  By  Edward  Strahan.  Cloth. 
Royal  8  Vo.    Gebbie  and  Barrie,  1877 

Pompeii.  La  Maison  des  Vettii  (Domus  Vettiorum).  The  reproduction,  in 
colours,  of  a  house  excavated  in  Pompeii.  16  plates  in  a  portfolio. 
Naples.     Negenborn  &  Bokwenkel.     G.  Brogi,  Successors 

Leonardo  Da  Vinci.  By  Adolf  Rosenberg.  Translated  by  J.  Lohse.  128 
illustrations  from  pictures  and  drawings.  Cloth.  Royal  8  Vo.  Velhagen 
&  Klasing.    Bielefeld  &  Leipzig.    Lemcke  &  Buechner,  New  York,  1903 

Works  of  Mrs.  Jameson.    Cloth.    18  Mo.    James  R.  Osgood  &  Company,  1875     10 
Sketches  of  Art,  Literature  and  Character. 
Memoirs  of  The  Early  Italian  Painters. 
Sacred  and  Legendary  Art.    Vols.  I.  and  II. 
Legends  of  the  Madonna. 
Studies  and  Memoirs. 
The  Diary  of  an  Ennuye. 
Legends  of  the  Monastic  Order. 
Memoirs  of  the  Poets. 
Characteristics  of  Women. 

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Bilder  zur  Ilias,  von  Friedrich  Preller  D.  Z.,  nach  den  Originalzeichnungen, 


No. 


herausgegeben   vom    Kunstwart. 
Kunstverlag.     12  plates,  13  x  9y2 
are  pictures  of  the  following: 

Iris,  Pallas  and  Hero 
Apollo  and  iEneas 
Philoktetes  at  Lemnos 
Poseidon  at  Samothrace 
Achilles  and  Thetis 
Achilles  Slays  Hector 


Miinchen,    Georg   D. 
inches,  in  a  portfolio. 


W.    Callwey, 
These  plates 


The  Departure  of  Hector 

Chryses  at  the  Sea  Shore 

Dolon 

Sarpedon 

Achilles  in  the  Scamander 

Priam 


Friedrich  Preller  des  Aelteren.  Odyssee-Landschaften  nach  den  Kohlezeich- 
nungen  in  der  National-Galerie  zu  Berlin.  Mit  einleitendem  Text  von 
Julius  Gensel.  Herausgegeben  vom  Kunstwart.  Miinchen,  bei  Georg 
D.  W.  Callwey  im  Kunstwart- Verlage.     13  illustrations  in  portfolio. . . . 


1 


The  Iliad  of  Homer.  Engraved  from  the  compositions  of  John  Flaxman, 
R.  A.  Sculptor,  London.  Original  Edition;  fine  impression.  Bound  in 
book,  24  Levant.  Size  11  x  \6l/2  inches.  Printed  for  Longmans,  Hurst, 
Rees  &  Orme,  Paternoster  Row;  R.  H.  Evans,  Pall  Mall;  W.  Miller, 
Albemarle  Street,  and  I.  &  A.  Arch  Cornhill.    March  1,  1905 1 

Greece  and  Rome,  Their  Life  and  Art,  by  Jakob  von  Falke.  Translated  by 
William  Hand  Browne.  Illustrated.  Cloth.  Quarto.  Henry  Holt  and 
Company,  1882.  Book  presented  by  Henry  Holt,  with  letter  dated  May  3, 
1883,  to  Thomas  Simms  Bettens 1 

The  "Painters"  Series.  Each  volume  contains  60  reproductions  of  the  Mas- 
ter, the  subject  of  such  volume.  Paper.  18  Mo.  Frederick  A.  Stokes. 
The  Painters  are  as  follows : 32 


Botticelli 

Boucher 

Bronzino 

Carpaccio  &  Giorgione 

Claude 

Constable 

Ingres 

Hoppner 

Gainsborough 

Giotto 

Goya 


Greuze 

Franz  Hals 

Hogarth 

De  Hooch  &  Vermeer 

Lawrence 

Massacio 

Lippi 

Luini 

Lotto 

Perugino 

Poussin 


Raeburn 
Reynolds 
Romney 

Andrea  Del  Sarto 
Jan  Steen 
Teniers 
Tintoretto 
Veronese 
Watteau 

The  Early  Flemish 
Painters 


Handbook  of  The  Benjamin  Altman  Collection  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum 
of  New  York.    1914.    Paper.    Crown  8  Vo.    Illustrated 


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Catalogue  De  Luxe  of  the  Daniel  S.  Miller  Art  Collection.  Sold  at  the  Hotel 
Savoy,  1916,  April  17,  18,  19  and  20,  by  Samuel  Marx.  Illustrated. 
Paper.     Regular  8  Vo 1 

Catalogue  of  the  Dr.  Alexander  C.  Humphrey  Collection  of  Paintings  Sold 
in  the  Hotel  Plaza,  New  York  City,  by  the  American  Art  Association, 
1917,  February  14  and  15.    Illustrated.    Paper.    Royal  8  Vo 1 

Catalogue  of  Old  and  Modern  Paintings  Sold  at  the  Hotel  Plaza,  New  York 
City,  April  16,  1917,  by  the  American  Art  Association.  Illustrated. 
Cloth.    Royal  8  Vo 1 

Catalogue  of  Henry  Ward  Ranger's  Completed  Pictures  and  of  His  Collection 
Sold  by  the  American  Art  Galleries  in  Its  Assembly  Room,  New  York 
City,  1917,  March  29  and  30.    Illustrated.    Paper.    Regular  8  Vo 1 

Catalogue  of  a  Loan  Exhibition  of  Italian  Primitives  in  Aid  of  the  American 
War  Relief.  By  Oswald  Siren  and  Maurice  W.  Brockwell,  in  the  F. 
Kleinberger  Galleries,  New  York  City,  November,  1917;  102  examples. 
Paper.    Regular  8  Vo. . .. 1 

Catalogue  of  Art  Treasures  and  Antiquities,  the  Property  of  Signor  Stefano 
Bardini,  Sold  at  the  American  Art  Galleries,  New  York  City,  1918,  April 
23,  24,  26  and  27.     Illustrated.     Boards.     Quarto 1 

Subscriber's  Copy  of  De  Luxe  Catalogue  No.  36,  edition  limited  to  200  copies, 
of  Notable  Paintings  by  Masters  of  the  Early  English,  Dutch,  Flemish 
and  French  Schools,  sold  at  public  auction  by  order  of  Mr.  T.  J.  Blakes- 
lee,  at  Mendelssohn  Hall,  New  York  City,  1908,  April  9  and  10. 
Boards.    Royal  8  Vo 1 

Catalogue  of  a  Collection  of  Paintings  by  Dutch  Masters  of  the  Seventeenth 
Century,  by  W.  R.  Valentine.  These  paintings  were  exhibited  Septem- 
ber to  November,  1909,  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York 
City,  during  the  Hudson-Fulton  Celebration  in  that  city.  Boards.  Royal 
8  Vo 2 


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made paper.  Miss  Prideaux  ranks  among  the  foremost  of  Artist  book- 
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The  Wandering  Jew.   By  Eugene  Sue.   Translated  into  English.     Illustrated. 

Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     Chapman  &  Hall,  1844.     Scarce 3 

The  Mysteries  of  Paris.  By  Eugene  Sue.  With  many  extremely  realistic 
illustrations.  Translated  into  English  by  Alfred  Matthew.  Half  green 
morocco,  gilt  tops.  8  Vo.  Chapman  &  Hall.  1845.  Best  edition  and  a 
choice  copy  bound  from  the  original  boards 3 

Consuelo.    By  George  Sand.    Translated  from  the  French  by  Frank  H.  Potter. 

Y$  Morocco.    12  Mo.    Dodd,  Mead  and  Company 4 

The  Scarlet  Letter.  By  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  Illustrations  in  photogravure 
by  F.  O.  C.  Darley.  Cloth,  with  gold  ornamentation  on  covers  and  back. 
8  Vo.  No.  123  of  an  edition  limited  to  200  copies.  Printed  at  the  River- 
side Press,  1892 1 

I  Promessi  Sposi.     The  Betrothed.     By  Alessandro  Manzoni.     Translated 

into  English.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     George  Belf  &  Sons,  1908 1 


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Chronicles  of  the  Conquest  of  Granada.     By  Washington  Irving.     Cloth, 

covers  and  back  decorated.     8  Vo.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1893 2 

The  Alhambra.  By  Washington  Irving.    Cloth.    8  Vo.    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons, 

1892 2 

The  Life  and  Death  of  Cardinal  Wolsey.  Written  by  George  Cavendish. 
Illustrated  with  portraits  by  Holbein.  Cloth.  Royal  8  Vo.  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1905 1 

The  American  Revolution.  By  John  Fiske.  Illustrated  with  portraits,  maps, 
facsimiles,  contemporary  views,  prints  and  other  historic  materials. 
Y±  Levant,  gilt  top.  Crown  8  Vo.  Vauthrin,  Relieur.  Houghton. 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1899 2 

Old  Virginia  and  Her  Neighbors.  By  John  Fiske.  Illustrated  with  portraits, 
maps,  facsimiles,  contemporary  prints  and  other  historic  materials.  ^ 
levant,  gilt  top.  Crown  8  Vo.  Vauthrin,  Relieur.  Houghton,  Mifflin  & 
Co.,  1899 2 

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to  Civil  and  Religious  Liberty.  By  John  Fiske.  Illustrated  with  por- 
traits, maps,  facsimiles,  contemporary  views,  prints  and  other  historical 
materials.  £4  levant.  Gilt  top.  Crown  8  Vo.  Vauthrin,  Relieur. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1899 2 

The  Critical  Period  of  American  History  1783-1789.  By  John  Fiske.  Illus- 
trated with  portraits,  maps,  facsimiles,  contemporary  views,  prints 
and  other  historical  materials.  24  levant.  Gilt  top.  Crown  8  Vo. 
Vauthrin,  Relieur.    Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1899 1 

The  French  Revolution,  by  Thomas  Carlyle.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Chap- 
man &  Hall,  1885 2 

The    History   of    Napoleon    the    First.     By    P.    Lanfrey.     Cloth.     12    Mo. 

Macmillan  &  Co.,  1886 4 

The  History  of  the  Rebellion  and  Civil  Wars  in  England,  begun  in  the  year 
1641.  By  Edward  Earl  of  Clarendon.  Re-edited  from  a  fresh  collation 
of  the  original  MS  in  the  Bodleian  Library,  with  marginal  dates  and 
occasional  notes,  by  W.  Dunn  Macray.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Oxford,  at  the 
Clarendon  Press,  1888 6 

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The  American  Ten  Years'  War,  1855-1865.     By  Denton  J.  Snider.     Cloth. 

12  Mo.    Signa  Publishing  Co 1 

The  Dawn  of  Italian  Independence :  Italy  from  the  Congress  of  Vienna,  1814, 
to  the  Fall  of  Venice,  1849.  By  William  Roscoe  Thayer.  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co 2 

Oxford.    Brief  Historical  and  Descriptive  Notes.    By  Andrew  Lang.    With 

illustrations.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    Seeley  &  Co.    1890 1 

Seven  Great  Statesmen  in  the  Warfare  of  Humanity  with  Unreason.     By 

Andrew  Dickson  White.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    The  Century  Co.,  1910. .       1 

Napoleon,  The  Last  Phase.     By  Lord  Roseberry.     Cloth.    Front  cover  and 

back  decorated  with  gold.     Crown  8  Vo.     Harper  &  Brothers,  1900. ...       1 

History  of  the  English  People.    By  John  Richard  Green.     Cloth.     12  Mo. 

Belford,  Clarke  &  Co,  1881 1 

The  History  of  Herodotus.  A  new  English  version,  edited  with  copious  notes 
and  appendices,  illustrating  the  History  and  Geography  of  Herodotus, 
from  the  most  recent  sources  of  information;  and  embodying  the  chief 
results,  historical  and  ethnographical,  which  have  been  obtained  in  the 
progress  of  cuneiform  and  hieroglyphical  discovery.  By  George  Rawlin- 
son.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    D.  Appleton  &  Co,  1880 4 

History  of  Greece.  By  George  Grote.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Harper  and  Brothers, 
1867 12 

The  History  of  the  Decline  and  Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire.  By  Edward  Gib- 
bon. With  notes  by  Dean  Milman,  M.  Guizot  and  Dr.  William  Smith. 
Cloth.    8  Vo.    Harper  &  Brothers 6 

Histories  by  Henry  Hart  Milman.  yA  Morocco.  12  Mo.  Published  by  A.  C. 
Armstrong,  1881.    They  are  as  follows: 

(1)  The  History  of  the  Jews  from  the  Earliest  Period  down  to  Modern 

Times.    3  volumes  in  2 2 

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tion of  Paganism  in  the  Roman  Empire.    3  volumes  in  2 2 

(3)  History  of  Christianity,  including  that  of  the  Popes  to  the  Pontifi- 

cate of  Nicholas  V.    8  volumes  in  4 4 

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The  Greatness  and  Decline  of  Rome.     By  Guglielmo  Ferrero.     Translated 

by  Alfred  Zimmern.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 5 

Characters  and  Events  of  Roman  History.  From  Csesar  to  Nero.  The 
Lowell  Lectures  of  1908.  By  Guglielmo  Ferrero.  Translated  by 
Frances  Lance  Ferrero.    Cloth.    8  Vo.    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1909 1 

The  Foundations  of  the  Nineteenth  Century.  By  Houston  Stewart  Cham- 
berlain. Translated  by  John  Lees,  with  an  introduction  by  Lord  Redes- 
dale.     Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.    John  Lane,  The  Bodley  Head 2 

The  Land  and  The  Book.  Biblical  illustrations  drawn  from  the  manners  and 
customs,  the  scenes  and  scenery  of  the  Holy  Land.  417  illustrations. 
Cloth.     Crown  8  Vo.     Harper  Brothers 3 

Gallus,  or  Roman  Scenes  of  the  Time  of  Augustus.  With  notes  and  excursus 
illustrative  of  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  Romans.  By  Professor 
W.  A.  Becker.  Translated  by  the  Rev.  Frederick  Metcalfe.  Cloth. 
16  Mo.     Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1895 1 

History  of  the  City  of  New  York.  Its  Origin,  Rise  and  Progress.  By  Mrs. 
Martha  J.  Lamb.  Illustrated.  Full  Morocco.  Regular  8  Vo.  A.  S. 
Barnes  &  Company,  1877 2 

Ten  Great  Religions.  By  James  Freeman  Clarke.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Hough- 
ton, Mifflin  &  Co.,  1883 3 

The  History  of  Rome.  By  Theodor  Mommsen.  Translated  by  the  Rev. 
William  P.  Dickson,  with  a  preface  by  Dr.  Leonard  Schmitz.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.    Charles  Scribner  &  Co.,  1869 4 

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Constable  &  Co.,  1902 1 

The  Cities  and  Cemeteries  of  Etruria.    By  George  Dennis.    With  map,  plans 

and  illustrations.    Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    John  Murray,  1883 2 


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Main  Currents  in  Nineteenth  Century  Literature.  By  George  Brandes. 
Illustrated.  In  English.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  William  Heinemann, 
MCMVI  6 

CEuvres  Completes  de  Moliere.    Par  Charles  Louandre.    Ya  Levant.    12  Mo. 

Charpentier,  Paris,  1869 3 

La  Litterature  Franchise  au  Dix-Huitieme  Siecle.      Par  Paul  Albert.      Y\ 

Levant.     12  Mo.    Hachette  et  Cie.    Paris,  1874 1 

Cours  de  Litterature,  Ancienne,  Moderne  et  Etrangere,  a  l'usage  des  jeunes 
personnes  des  deux  sexes.  Par  Mme.  La  Comtesse  d'Hautpoul.  Ya 
Morocco.     16  Mo.    Hector  Bossange,  Paris,  1830 2 

Les  Aventures  de  Telemaque,  Fils  d'Ulysse.   Par  M.  Fenelon.   Cloth.   12  Mo. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  1874 1 

Essais  de  Michel  De  Montaigne.     Par  P.  Christian.     Ya  Morocco.     16  Mo. 

Hachette  et  Cie.,  Paris,  1872 1 

Fables  J.  La  Fontaine,  suivi  de  Philemon  et  Baucis  et  des  Filles  de  Minee, 
precedees  de  la  Vie  d'fisope,  et  d'une  preface  par  La  Fontaine.  Edition 
Variorum,  publiee  par  M.  Charles  Louandre,  accompagnee  d'une  notice 
par  M.  Sainte-Beuve,  de  L'Academie  Franchise.  Ornee  d'un  beau  por- 
trait grave  sur  acier.  Ya  levant.  16  Mo.  Charpentier  et  Cie.,  Paris 
1872 1 

Cinq-Mars,  ou  Une  Conjuration  sous  Louis  XIII.     Par  M.  Alfred  de  Vigny. 

Cloth.    16  Mo.    S.  R.  Urbino,  Boston,  1869 1 

Le  Cid.     Horace.     Par  Pierre  Corneille.     Cloth.     18  Mo.     Schoenhof  & 

Moeller,  Boston,  1873 1 

Life  in  America  One  Hundred  Years  Ago.    By  Gaillard  Hunt.     Illustrated. 

Cloth.    Crown  8  Vo.    Harper  &  Brothers,  MCMXIV 1 

John  Eliot's  First  Indian  Teacher  and  Interpreter,  Cockenoe-De-Long  Island, 
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lace Tooker.  Illustrated.  No.  80  of  an  edition  limited  to  215  copies. 
Cloth.     Regular  8  Vo.     Francis  P.  Harper,  1896 1 

The  Theory  of  Social  Revolutions.     By  Brooks  Adams.     Cloth.     12  Mo. 

The  Macmillan  Company,  1893 1 

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Wanted— A  Theology.     By  Samuel  T.  Carter,  D.  P.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Funk 

&  Wagnalls  Company,  1908 1 

Strength  for  Every  Day.    A  compilation  of  beautiful  thoughts  for  my  friend. 

Cloth.     12  Mo.     Dodge  Publishing  Company 1 

The  Story  of  a  Mark.  Being  a  brief  sketch  of  a  few  printers'  "Marks"  and 
containing  the  facts  concerning  the  "Mark"  of  The  Gilliss  Press.  By 
Walter  Gilliss.  Edition  limited  to  250  copies  on  plain  letter,  60  copies 
on  imperial  Japan  paper,  and  12  copies  on  French  Vellum  paper.  The 
Gilliss  Press,  New  York,  MCMII 1 

Bell  and  Wing.  By  Frederick  Fanning  Ayer.  Cloth.  Regular  8  Vo.  Presen- 
tation copy  by  the  author.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1911 1 

The  First  Fifty  Years  of  The  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society  of  the 
United  States,  1859-1909.  By  Paul  Morton,  President.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
June,   1909 1 

On  Reading.     An  Essay  by  George  Brandes.     Cloth.     12  Mo.     Duffield  & 

Company,  1906 1 

The  Riddle  of  the  Universe  at  the  Close  of  the  Nineteenth  Century.  By 
Ernst  Haeckel.  Translated  by  Joseph  McCabe.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Har- 
per &  Brothers,  1902 1 

Desiderius  Erasmus,  Concerning  the  Aim  and  Method  of  Education.  By 
William  Harrison  Woodward.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Cambridge,  at  the  Uni- 
versity Press,  1904 1 

On  Becoming  Blind.  Advice  for  the  use  of  persons  losing  their  sight.  By 
Dr.  Emile  Javal.  Translated  by  Carroll  E.  Edson,  A.  M.,  M.  D.  Cloth. 
12  Mo.    Macmillan  &  Co.,  1905 1 

The  Church's  Attitude  Towards  Truth.     By  Edward  P.  Usher.     Paper. 

12  Mo.    Published  by  the  Author.    Grafton,  Mass.,  1907 1 

Joys  of  the  Road.     A  little  anthology  in  praise  of  walking.     Compiled  by 

W.  R.  B.    Cloth.    18  Mo.    Browne's  Bookstore,  Chicago,  MDCCCXI. . .       1 

166 


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The  Book  of  the  Cheese,  being  Traits  and  Stories  of  "Ye  Olde  Cheshire 
Cheese,"  Wine  Court,  Fleet  Street,  London,  E.  C.  Compiled  by  the  late 
T.  W.  Reid.  Edited  by  R.  R.  D.  Adams.  Illustrated  by  Messrs.  Sey- 
mour Lucas,  R.  A. ;  Herbert  Railton,  Joseph  Pennell,  Walter  Allen  and 
George  Cruikshank.     Cloth.  12  Mo.     T.  Fisher  Unwin,  London,  1901       1 

History  of  English  Literature,  by  H.  A.  Taine.    Translated  from  the  French 

by  H.  Van  Laun.     yA  Levant.     Crown  8  Vo.     Chatto  &  Windus,  1883       4 

Ways  of  Nature.  By  John  Burroughs.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Houghton,  Mifflin 
&  Co.,  1905 1 

Florentine  Life  During  the  Renaissance.  By  Walter  B.  Scaife.  Cloth.  Reg- 
ular 8  Vo.    The  Johns  Hopkins  Press,  1893 1 

The  Master  of  the  Gunnery.  A  Memorial  of  Frederick  William  Gunn.  By 
his  pupils.  Illustrated.  Front  cover  and  back  decorated  with  gold. 
Gilt  edges.  Regular  8  Vo.  The  Gunn  Memorial  Association,  New 
York,  1887 1 

Homes  of  the  Early  Presidents  and  Present  Day  Opportunities  for  Homes 
in  Northern  Virginia.  Compliments  of  the  Southern  Railway  Company. 
Paper.     Quarto 1 

The  Harvard  Book.  A  series  of  historical,  biographical  and  descriptive 
sketches  by  various  authors.  Illustrated  with  views  and  portraits.  Col- 
lected and  published  by  F.  O.  Vaille  and  H.  A.  Clark,  Class  of  1874, 
Harvard  College.    Full  Morocco.    Welsh,  Bigelow  &  Co.,  1875 2 

Some  Aboriginal  Sites  on  Red  River.  By  Clarence  B.  Moore.  Reprint  from 
the  Journal  of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of  Philadelphia.  Vol. 
XIV.     yA  Morocco.     Quarto.     F.  C.  Stockhausen,  1912 1 

A  Roman  Dinner.  By  Milwaukee  Chapter  Medical  Fraternity.  XII  Kal. 
Jun.  MDCCCC 1 

The  Writings  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  Monticello  edition,  containing  his  auto- 
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Messages  and  Addresses,  and  other  writings,  official  and  private,  now  col- 
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of  the  original  manuscripts  deposited  in  the  Department  of  State  and 
published  in  1853  by  order  of  the  Joint  Committee  of  Congress.  With 
numerous  illustrations  and  a  complete  and  analytical  index.  Andrew  A. 
Lipscomb,  Chairman  Board  of  Governors,  Editor  in  Chief;  Albert 
Ellery  Bergh,  Managing  Editor.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Issued  under 
the  auspices  of  The  Thomas  Jefferson  Memorial  Association  of  the 
United  States,  Washington,  D.  C,  1904 20 

167 


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Weird  Tales,  by  E.  T.  W.  Hoffman.  Translated  from  the  German,  with  a 
biographical  memoir  by  J.  T.  Bealby.  11  etchings  by  Ad.  Lalauze. 
Cloth.    12  Mo.    John  C.  Nimmo,  London,  1885. 2 

The  Life  of  the  Bee,  by  Maurice  Maeterlinck.  Translated  by  Alfred  Sutro. 
Cloth.     12  Mo.     Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.,  1901 

Literature.  By  Herman  Grimm.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Cupples,  Upham  & 
Co.,   1886 

Self-Help,  with  Illustrations  of  Character,  Conduct,  and  of  Perseverance.  By 
Samuel  Smiles.    Cloth.     12  Mo.    Harper  &  Brothers,  1875 

School,  College  and  Character.  By  Le  Baron  Russell  Briggs.  Cloth.  16 
Mo.    Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1901 

On  the  Cam.  Lectures  on  the  University  of  Cambridge  in  England.  By 
William  Everett.    Cloth.     12  Mo.    Sever  &  Francis,  1867 

Art,  Literature  and  the  Drama.  By  Margaret  Fuller  Ossoli.  Edited  by  her 
brother,  Arthur  B.  Fuller.    Cloth.     12  Mo.    Roberts  Brothers,  1874. . . 

The  Bible  as  English  Literature.  By  J.  H.  Gardner.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1906 

American  Traits  from  the  Point  of  View  of  a  German.  By  Hugo  Miinster- 
berg.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1901 

Life  Without  and  Life  Within;  or  Reviews,  Narratives,  Essays  and  Poems 
by  Margaret  Fuller  Ossoli.  Edited  by  her  brother,  Arthur  B.  Fuller. 
Cloth.     12  Mo.    Roberts  Brothers,  1875 

The  Modern  Bank.  A  description  of  its  function  and  methods  and  a  brief 
account  of  the  development  and  present  systems  of  banking.  By  Amos 
Kidder  Fiske.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  1904 

The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast  Table.  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  Cloth.  12 
Mo.    Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1882 

The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast  Table,  with  the  Story  of  Iris,  by  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1882 

The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast  Table.  New  and  revised  edition,  with  illustra- 
tive notes.    By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.    Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1883 

168 


No, 

Humorous  Masterpieces  from  American  Literature.  By  Edward  T.  Mason. 
Cloth.    16  Mo.    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1886 

The  New  Freedom.  A  Call  for  the  Emancipation  of  the  Generous  Energies 
of  a  People.  By  Woodrow  Wilson.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Doubleday,  Page 
&  Co.,  1913 

From  a  College  Window.  By  Arthur  Christopher  Benson.  Cloth.  12  Mo. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1906 

Fireside  Travel.  By  James  Russell  Lowell.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Ticknor  & 
Field,  1865 

Obiter  Dicta.    Cloth.    12  Mo.    Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1886 


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12  Mo.    James  R.  Osgood  &  Co.,  1874 

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by  George  Vanan.  Cloth.  Front  cover  decorated.  12  Mo.  Lathrop 
Publishing  Company,  Boston 

Three  Essays  on  Religion.  By  John  Stuart  Mill.  Cloth.  12  Mo.  Henry 
Holt  &  Co.,  1874 

English  Lessons  for  English  People.  By  Rev.  Edwin  A.  Abbott  and  J.  R. 
Seeley.    Cloth.     18  Mo.    Roberts  Brothers,  1872 

Lectures  on  the  English  Language.  By  George  P.  Marsh.  Cloth.  Crown 
8  Vo.     Charles  Scribner,  1860 


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Roman  Contemporain.  No.  67,  printed  for  Mr.  Carl  von  Harz  of  an 
edition  of  1,000  complete  copies  printed  on  Japanese  Vellum  paper  by  George 
Barrie  &  Son,  Philadelphia.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo.  Translations  of  follow- 
ing French  writers: 

NO.   OF 

Title  Author  Etchings 

Madame  Bovary  Gustave  Flaubert  24  2 

The  Cardinal  Family  Ludovic  Halevy  27  1 

Germinie  Lacerteux  Edmond  and  Jules 

de  Goncourt  10  1 

Sapho:  Parisian  Customs  Alphonse  Daudet  10  1 

The  Lady  of  The  Camellias  Alexandre  Dumas  Fils         10  1 

A  Page  of  Love  Emile  Zola  22  2 

Mademoiselle  de  Maupin  Theophile  Gautier  38  2 

Salome,  A  Tragedy  in  One  Act.  Translated  from  the  French  of  Oscar 
Wilde,  with  16  Drawings  by  Aubrey  Beardsley.  Cloth.  Crown  8  Vo. 
Front  cover  decorated  in  gold ;  gilt  top.  John  Lane.  The  Bodley  Head. 
London,  MCMVII  1 

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Peter  Motteux,  with  the  Notes  of  Duchat,  Ozell  and  others.  Introduc- 
tion and  revision  by  Alfred  Wallis.  Cloth.  16  Mo.  Front  cover 
and  back  decorated.  Gilt  top.  Gibbings  and  Company,  London, 
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New  York  and  Seattle,  1910 1 

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1.  Homer.     Ilias,  Schulausgabe  von  K.  F.  Ameis,  Weil  Professor  und  Pro- 

fessor am  Gymnasium  zu  Miihlhausen  in  Thiiringen.  Besorgt  von  Dr. 
C.  Hentze,  Professor  am  Gymnasium  zu  Gottingen.  Yz  Morocco. 
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Books  XIII  to  XXIV.  1897  

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3.  Herodotus.     Fur  den  Schulgebrauch  erklart  von  Dr.  K.  Abicht,  Director 

des  Gymnasium  zu  Oels.     Yz  Morocco,  Crown  8  Vo.     Leipzig.     Druck 

und  Verlag  von  B.  G.  Teubner. 

Books       I  to    II.         1874    1 

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Books  VII  to  IX.        1873    1 

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Leipzig.     Weidmannsche  Buchhandlungen. 

Books       I  to    II.         1883    1 

Books    III  to  VI.        1877    1 

Books  VII  to  IX.        1877    1 

5.  Herodotus.     Von  K.  W.  Kriiger.     ]/2   Morocco.     Crown  8  Vo.     Berlin. 

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edition.     By  B.  Perrin. 

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lein,  Rector  of  the  Maximilian  Gymnasium  in  Munich,  translated 
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(d)  Antigone,  by  Sophocles.    Edited  on  the  basis  of  Wolff's  Edition  by 

Martin  L.  Dodge,  Professor  of  Greek  in  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan, 1885  1 

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Flagg,  1889 1 

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by  M.  W.  Humphreys,  Professor  of  Greek  in  the  University  of 
Texas,  1885  1 

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Charles  D.  Morris,  Professor  in  the  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versity,  1887 1 

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By  Charles  Forster  Smith,  Professor  of  Greek  in  Vander- 
bilt  University,  1894 1 

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Book  V.      Edited  on  the  basis  of  Classen's  Edition.      By 

Harold   North   Fowler,    Instructor   in   Harvard  Univer- 
sity,   1888 1 

Book  VII.  Edited  on  the  basis  of  Classen's  Edition.  By 
Charles  Forster  Smith,  Professor  of  Greek  in  Vanderbilt 
University,   1886 . 1 

(h)  Aeschines  against  Ctesiphon  (on  the  Crown).  Edited  on  the  basis 
of  Weidner's  Edition.  By  Rufus  B.  Richardson,  Professor  of 
Greek  in  Dartmouth  College,  1889 1 

(t)  Eight  Orations  of  Lysias.  Edited,  with  introduction,  notes  and  ap- 
pendices, by  Morris  H.  Morgan,  Assistant  Professor  in  Harvard 
College,  1895 1 

(/)  Plato.  Edited  on  the  basis  of  Deutsche  Krone  Edition.  By  Gon- 
zalez Lodge,  Bryn  Mawr  College,  1891 1 

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Buchsenschutz's  Edition.  By  Irving  J.  Manatt,  Chancellor  of  the 
University  of  Nebraska,  formerly  Professor  of  Greek  in  Marietta 
College,  1888 1 

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Buchsenschutz's  Edition.  By  Charles  E.  Bennett,  Professor  in 
Brown  University,  1892 1 

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Scott.  Revised  and  augmented  throughout  with  the  co-operation  of 
Professor  Drisler.   8th  edition.   Full  Morocco.   Quarto.   Henry  Frowde.       1 

THIRD 

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Published  by  Teubner,  Leipzig,  as  follows: 

(a)  C.    Vellei   Paterculi   ex   Historiae   Romanae,    Libris   Duobus   Quae 

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MDCCCLXXVI  1 

(b)  C.  Sallusti  Catilina  Iugurtha,  ex  Historiis,  Orationis  et  Epistulae. 

In  usum  scholarum.    Edidit  Adam  Eussner,  MDCCCXCVII. . .       1 

(c)  Metamorphoseon  Lucii  Apulei.     Book  Eleven.     Recensuit  J.  Van 

der  Vliet,  MDCCCLXXXVII 1 

(d)  Eutropi,  Breviarium  ab  Urbe  Condita.  Recognovit  Francesco  Rvehl, 

MCMI 1 

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Odes  and  Epodes,  by  Q.  Horatius  Flaccus.  By  Dr.  C.  W.  Nauck,  Director  des 
Friedrich-Wilhelms  Gymnasium  zu  Konigsberg.  y2  Morocco.  Crown 
8  Vo.    Leipzig.    Druck  und  Verlag  von  B.  G.  Teubner,  1876 1 

Virgil's  Bucolica  und  Georgica.  By  Karl  Kappes,  Director  des  Real-Gym- 
nasiums in  Karlsruhe.  y2  Morocco.  Crown  8  Vo.  Leipzig.  Druck 
und  Verlag  von  B.  G.  Teubner,  1876 1 

Virgil's  Aeneide.     By  Karl  Kappes.     y2  Morocco.     Crown  8  Vo.     Leipzig. 

Druck  und  Verlag  von  B.  G.  Teubner,  1877 1 

C.  Julii  Csesaris  Commentarii,  de  Bello  Gallico.  Erklart  von  Friedrich 
Kraner.  y2  Morocco.  Crown  8  Vo.  Berlin.  Weidmannsche  Buch- 
handlung,  1879 1 

FOURTH 

A  Copious  and  Critical  Latin-English  Lexicon,  founded  on  the  Larger  Latin- 
German  Lexicon  of  Dr.  William  Freund.  With  additions  and  correc- 
tions from  the  Lexicons  of  Gesner,  Facciolati,  Schiller,  Georges,  etc. 
By  E.  A.  Andrews.  Leather.  Regular  8  Vo.  Harper  &  Brothers,  1868. 
The  signatures  of  Edw.  D.  Bettens,  Class  '73  (Harvard  College),  and  of 
Thos.  S.  Bettens,  Class  '74  (Harvard),  on  fly  leaf,  and  that  of  Edw.  D. 
Bettens,  Class  73,  on  title  page 1 


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31.  Mount  Holyoke  College,  South  Hadley,  Massachusetts 

32.  Vassar  College,  Poughkeepsie,  New  York 

33.  Elmira  College,  Elmira,  New  York 

34.  Barnard  College,  New  York,  New  York 

35.  William  Smith  College,  Geneva,  New  York 

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37.  The  Teachers  College  of  Indiana,  Indianapolis,  Indiana 

38.  Berea  College,  Berea,  Kentucky 

39.  Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  Ohio 

40.  Hampton  Institute,  Hampton,  Virginia 

41.  Tuskegee  Institute,  Tuskegee  Institute,  Alabama 

42.  William  S.  Beaman,  Esq.,  Class  of  1872,  Harvard  College,  New  York, 

New  York 

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New  York 

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Italy    

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47.  Mrs.  Theodore  M.  Lilienthal,  San  Francisco,  California 

48.  Mrs.  J.  Kearney  Warren,  New  York,  New  York 

49.  Edward  D.  Bettens,  New  York,  New  York 2 

50.  Nathan  Haskell  Dole,  Jamaica  Plains,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

51.  Miss  Henrietta  Walter,  San  Diego,  California 

52.  Mrs.  George  W.  Harper,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

53.  Mr.  D.  W.  Miller,  Norwood,  Ohio 

54.  The  University  of  Cincinnati,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

55.  Yale  University,  New  Haven,  Connecticut  

56.  Princeton  University,  Princeton,  New  Jersey 

57.  Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  New  York 

58.  University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison,  Wisconsin 

59.  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  Stanford  University,  California 

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61.  New  York  Public  Library,  New  York,  New  York 

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63.  Bibliotheque  Nationale,  Paris,  France 

64.  Biblioteca  Nationale  Centrale  Vittorio  Emanuele,  Rome,  Italy 

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67.  The  Corcoran  Art  Gallery,  Washington,  D.  C 

68.  National  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  D.  C 

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76.  The  Brearley  School,  New  York,  New  York 

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78.  Lake  Forest  College,  Lake  Forest,  Illinois 

79.  Mr.  Henry  Decsi,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

80.  The  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford  University,  Oxford,  England 

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82.  Trinity  College  Library,  Dublin,  Ireland 

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84.  Bibliotheque  Royale,  Brussels,  Belgium 

85.  Koninklijke  Bibliotheek,  The  Hague,  Holland 

86.  Biblioteca  Nacional,  Madrid,  Spain 

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88.  Landsbokasafn,    Reykjavik,    Iceland 

89.  Kungliga  Biblioteket,  Stockholm,  Sweden 

90.  Det  Kongelige  Bibliothek,  Copenhagen,  Denmark 

91.  Bibliotheque  de  Luxemburg,  Luxemburg,  Luxemburg 

92.  Konigl.  Universitats-Bibliothek,  Berlin,  Germany 

93.  K.  K.  Universitats-Bibliothek,  Vienna,  Austria 

94.  Biblioteca  Nazionale  Centrale,  Florence,  Italy 

95.  National  Library,  Athens,  Greece 

96.  Bibliotheca  Nacional,  Lisbon,  Portugal 

97.  Imperial  Public  Library,  Petrograd,  Russia 

98.  Bibliotheque  Khediviale,  Cairo,  Egypt 

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100.  Bibliotheque  de   l'Ecole   Frangaise   d'Extreme   Orient,   Hanoi,   Indo- 

China 

101.  The  University  Library,  Tokio,  Japan 

102.  New  South  Wales  Public  Library,  Sydney,  Australia 

103.  Biblioteca  Nacional,  Buenos  Aires,  Argentina 

104.  Bibliotheca  Publica  Nacional,  Rio  de  Janeiro,  Brazil 

105.  Biblioteca  Nacional,  Santiago,  Chile.  . ." 

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108.  The  Philippine  Library,  Manila,  Philippine  Islands 

109.  Library  of  Hawaii,  Honolulu,  Hawaii 

110.  Historical  Library  and  Museum,  Sitka,  Alaska 

111.  Frederick  F.  Ayer,  Esq.,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

112.  Dr.  Oliver  H.  Everett,  Worcester,  Massachusetts 

113.  Rev.  Frank  H.  Foster,  Oberlin,  Ohio 

114.  Hon.  Frank  H.  Gavin,  Indianapolis,  Indiana 

115.  Hon.  Robert  Grant,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

116.  Prof.  George  H.  Johnson,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

117.  William  A.  Purrington,  Esq.,  New  York,  New  York 

118.  Edward  P.  Usher,  Esq.,  Grafton,  Massachusetts 

119.  Prof.  Horatio  S.  White,  Cambridge,  Massachusetts 

120.  Hon.  Frederic  Lawton,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

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122.  Miss  Geisser,  New  York,  New  York 

123.  Miss  Charlotte  O'Girr,  New  York,  New  York 

124.  Mr.  James  S.  Richards,  President  of  Woodward  Alumnal  Association. 

125.  The  Harvard  Graduates  Magazine,  Cambridge,  Massachusetts 

126.  Simmons  College,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

127.  Williams  College,  Williamstown,  Massachusetts 

128.  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  New  Hampshire 

129.  Stevens  Institute  of  Technology,  Hoboken,  New  Jersey 

130.  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Massachusetts 

131.  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  Exeter,  New  Hampshire 

132.  The  Grolier,  Century,  Yale,  Princeton,  Columbia,  Cornell,  University, 

Clubs,  and  The  Hispanic  Society,  New  York,  New  York 

133.  The  University  of  Arizona,  Tucson,  Arizona 

134.  The  University  of  Arkansas,  Fayetteville,  Arkansas 

135.  The  University  of  California,  Berkeley,  California 

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136.  The  University  of  Colorado,  Boulder,  Colorado 

137.  The  University  of  Georgia,  Athens,  Georgia 

138.  The  University  of  Idaho,  Moscow,  Idaho 

139.  The  University  of  Illinois,  Urbana,  Illinois 

140.  The  University  of  Indiana,  Bloomington,  Indiana 

141.  Notre  Dame  University,  Notre  Dame,  Indiana 

142.  The  University  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City,  Iowa 

143.  The  University  of  Kansas,  Lawrence,  Kansas 

144.  The  Tulane  University,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana 

145.  Bowdoin  College,  Brunswick,  Maine 

146.  Johns  Hopkins  University,  Baltimore,  Maryland 

147.  The  University  of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan 

148.  The  University  of  Minnesota,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota 

149.  The  University  of  Mississippi,  University,  Mississippi 

150.  The  University  of  Missouri,  Columbia,  Missouri 

151.  The  University  of  Montana,  Missoula,  Montana 

152.  The  University  of  Nebraska,  Lincoln,  Nebraska 

153.  The  University  of  Nevada,  Reno,  Nevada 

154.  Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey 

155.  The  University  of  New  Mexico,  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico 

156.  The  University  of  North  Carolina,  Chapel  Hill,  North  Carolina 

157.  The  University  of  North  Dakota,  Grand  Forks,  North  Dakota 

158.  The  State  University,  Norman,  Oklahoma 

159.  The  University  of  Oregon,  Eugene,  Oregon 

160.  The  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

161.  Brown  University,  Providence,  Rhode  Island 

162.  The  University  of  South  Carolina,  Columbia,  South  Carolina 

163.  The  University  of  South  Dakota,  Vermilion,  South  Dakota 

164.  The  University  of  Tennessee,  Knoxville,  Tennessee 

165.  The  University  of  Texas,  Austin,  Texas 

166.  The  University  of  Utah,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 

167.  The  University  of  Vermont,  Burlington,  Vermont 

168.  Washington  and  Lee  University,  Lexington,  Virginia 

169.  The  University  of  Washington,  Seattle,  Washington 

170.  The  West  Virginia  University,  Morgantown,  West  Virginia 

171.  The  University  of  Wyoming,  Laramie,  Wyoming 

172.  The  University  of  Alberta,  Edmonton,  Alberta,  Canada 

173.  The  University   of   British  Columbia,  Vancouver,   British   Columbia, 

Canada 

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174.  The  University  of  Manitoba,  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  Canada '       1 

175.  The  University   of    New    Brunswick,   Fredericton,    New    Brunswick, 

Canada .- 1 

176.  Dalhousie  University,  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  Canada 1 

177.  The  University  of  Toronto,  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada 1 

178.  McGill  University,  Montreal,  Quebec,  Canada 1 

179.  Members  of  the  Monument  and  Tablet  Committee  of  Woodward  High 

School 4 

180.  Members  of  the  Alcove  and  Museum  and  Graduates  Room  Committee 

of  Woodward  High  School 5 

181.  Hon.  Eliot  Tuckerman,  New  York,  New  York 

182.  Hon.  Francis  G.  Caffey,  New  York,  New  York 

183.  George  Bendelari,  Esq.,  New  York,  New  York 

184.  Frank  H.  Piatt,  Esq.,  New  York,  New  York 

185.  James  Byrne,  Esq.,  New  York,  New  York 

186.  Rev.  Thomas  French,  Sebastopol,  California 

187.  Mr.  James  P.  Townley,  Kansas  City,  Missouri 

188.  Mrs.  Emily  Fall,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

189.  Prof.  Edward  S.  Sheldon,  Cambridge,  Massachusetts 

190.  Dr.  Frederick  C.  Shattuck,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

191.  J.  George  Flammer,  Esq.,  New  York,  New  York 

192.  Columbia  University,  New  York,  New  York. 

193.  Birmingham  College,  Birmingham,  Alabama 

194.  The  University  of  Florida,  Gainesville,  Florida 

195.  Delaware  College,  Newark,  Delaware 

196.  Mr.  Benjamin  M.  Leland,  Nutley,  New  Jersey 


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